RE: Re: System/34 -- Stinkin' NT _AGAIN_

Which just goes to show you that if someone tells you they have seen the
future and it is NT, it must be a Mirage !

:-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rehm [SMTP:Mr.AS400@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 10:48 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Re: System/34 -- Stinkin' NT _AGAIN_
> 
> ** Reply to note from "Pedro Manuel Rodrigues"
> <pmanuel@cindy.fe.up.pt> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:34:08 +0000
> 
> 
> > If it was possible to have 3K dumb terminals on a NT server, why  
> > shouldnt it? Please when you translate that into NT'ish please be  
> > sensible, and do it well. Its obvious that 3 people supporting 7  
> > AS/400 with 3K users with dumb terminals (if they were all CA/400  
> > they wouldnt be enough) on them, isn't quite the same as having 3  
> > people supporting 7 NT's with 3K users with Win95 machines. It would
> 
> > be the nearest thing to hell on earth. They are different tasks,
> left  
> > for different people. 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean, Pedro. I think Dean was simply pointing
> out
> that supporting NT requires much more overhead than supporting OS/400.
> 
> In Las Vegas, the Boyd Group supports a dozen or so properties. They
> have a
> total MIS staff of about 60 people. They are not hiring very fast, but
> they
> want to grow their staff to 100. They are very picky about who they
> hire so
> this will probably take about 20 years. ;-)
> 
> Mirage Resorts has half the properties and twice the staff. They also
> have
> plans, to grow their staff to 300.
> 
> The Boyd Group is an AS/400 shop. In fact they are an IBM showplace
> and
> were one of the key speakers at the announcements last year.
> 
> Mirage Resorts has long been trying to get NT to payoff. The bought
> three
> new AS/400 model 620s last year, because the NT bit isn't going as
> well as
> they had hoped. Like other Microsoft faithful shops, though, they are
> trying again to get NT to succeed. Although they had to throw out the
> NT
> conversion process and cancel their contract with Microsoft (who is
> doing
> the conversion), they are working with MS to create a new plan.
> 
> > Pedro Manuel Rodrigues
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Rehm
> Mr.AS400@ibm.net
> 
> How often can you afford to be unexpectedly out of business?
> Get an AS/400.
> 
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