Re: IBM Spin Doctors on AS/400 Marketing

>Well, Chris, it so happens I am an RPG programmer for a funeral home
>business. In fact, we have seveal hundred facilities in the US (and more
>in Canada, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand). The AR and accounting
>functions are entirely AS/400 based. The 400 has gone down only once for
>non-scheduled reasons, ad that was because the power got cut off to the
>building, and the UPS didn't last long enough.
>
>We also have a new help desk system which runs on NT ans MS SQL server.
>Buggy as an ant farm. They have some unexpalined locks on some files,
>and the only way to get rid of them is to reboot!

Francis;
        I was not trying to advocate NT. I was not trying to indicate that
Funeral services could find good software on NT. I don't use NT. I don't
advocate NT. I picked the email address of Mr.AS400@ibm.net because, oddly
enough, I advocate AS/400s. I think they are the greatest machine running.
I think that every business should own some and I think that if technical
merit sold machines they would be in every nook and cranny of the business
world. 

        My post was intended to indicate the very thing I have stated over and
over in this thread. I don't think that advertising the AS/400 is the
solution. The solution is marketing AS/400 based applications.

>    Francis Lapeyre                       flapeyre@communique.net


Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net
You have to ask yourself, "How often can I afford to be unexpectedly out of 
business?" 
Get an AS/400.
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