RE: List of large iSeries companies

Bottom line is that your manufacturing systems never did get migrated off of
the iSeries onto Windows servers. 

Thank you for confirming that.

Standard operating procedure for replacing "outdated legacy systems":

Step 1: Attempt to migrate iSeries functions to Windows.
Step 2: Outsource.

Joe


> From: David Delisi
> 
> Microsoft **long ago** outsourced all of our manufacturing for software,
> books, and even hardware like mice, keyboards and Xbox. Development is
> all done in house of course.
> 
> Is it possible that one of the outsource companies might be running an
> i5 somewhere? Sure. Just like many iSeries shops develop for Windows
> (according to the latest study done by iSeries News and LANSA, and
> published this month in the magazine, 45% of iSeries shops are doing
> Windows development (not just running Windows applications like
> Exchange) vs. 3% on Linux,) it would make sense to find someone in the
> Microsoft supply chain running OS/400.  It's a heterogeneous world in
> the enterprise and midmarket segments.