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Chuck,

I had a really nice talk with David this morning on this subject. He's going to research this statue further and get back with us on details on it. I think what the statute is saying is that casinos had to do certain secure functions and as things had it, the software doing those functions was only available on iSeries. I've just never heard of any regulatory statute MANDATING a specific o/s or hardware or vendor, by statute, for a particular function. That would be a statutory dictated monopoly which is incredibly rare and open to a lot of legal issues.

We also had a nice talk about SQL server interfaces into iSeries DB2 systems and I've got some research to do there as well.

Don in DC

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At 02:39 PM 1/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
WOW - you are serious David ? That is wild - and good for us iSeries folks
:-)

Chuck

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Delisi
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries

I had a meeting recently with a casino and asked them this same
question.

In many states, the Casinos are required by law to run iSeries software
for the gaming side of the business. It is the same software everywhere
and the enforcement agencies understand it so they can ensure the
casinos are playing fair when it comes to gaming. As a result, you find
they brought an iSeries in as a requirement and then leveraged that
investment for ERP, etc.  You also find leading hospitality solutions
like Agilysys's LMS product that is used by the largest hotels and
casinos in the world today still only runs on the iSeries.


David deLisi
Microsoft

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