FW: Rows of NT vs 1 N-way -- MIDRANGE-L

didn't Alan Alda do a commercial for AS/400 when it first came out.  (or
maybe it was a magazine ad i saw (memory fading...))

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Palmer [SMTP:npalmer@NxTrend.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 1:01 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Cc:   '74711.77@CompuServe.COM'
> Subject:      RE: Rows of NT vs 1 N-way
> 
> John,
> 
> Sounds like the guy spinning all the plates could be an IS Manager
> with
> NT machines in an AS/400 TV Commercial, next to an IS Manager with an
> AS/400 spinning one big plate and having an real easy time !.
> Of course, that's if IBM Corporate ever allowed them to actually MAKE
> AS/400 TV Commercials !!   
> (Yeah, I AM forgetting the surfer ad !).   :-)
> 
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       John Carr [SMTP:74711.77@CompuServe.COM]
> > Sent:       Sunday, June 07, 1998 11:05 PM
> > To: Midrange-L
> > Subject:    Rows of NT vs 1 N-way
> > 
> > 
> > RE: NEWSWire/400-05.27.98
> > 
> > Got this a week or so ago (Newwire/400).  Thought it was
> interesting.
> > BTW a large company in my town was running Domino on (I think)
> > 17 NT servers (Rows of them).   They  replaced the "Rows" for a 
> > single N-way AS/400.  It think it had something to do with support
> > costs & uptime.  I'm not sure<G>.  
> > 
> > Hey, that reminds me,  Do you's people remember that act on TV 
> > with the guy with the plates on the sticks ?  He had about a
> bunch(17
> > ?)
> > of sticks straight up from a table and he put a dinner plate on top
> of
> > 
> > each one(spinning it) as he put more plates on the sticks, he had to
> > keep
> > running back to keep the others spinning.   He eventually hit his
> max,
> > 
> > and his entire time was running back and forth keeping the plates
> > spinning.
> > Every one laughed when they occasionally fell. 
> > 
> > I don't know why I keep remembering that act when hearing about
> "Rows
> > and Rows".  Hmm  Anyway I thought it  was funny.
> > 
> > <From Newswire/400)
> > OUT OF CONTEXT: ROW UPON ROW OF NT-POWERED COMPAQ MACHINES
> > 
> > "Why is IBM going to be happy with a Java specification that lets 
> > their customer freely choose not to use their platform? If pure 
> > Java really succeeds, all the server companies are dead, because 
> > Compaq can roll out its NT systems, and you can cluster them 
> > together so you have five running, and it costs you $20,000. And 
> > this thing outperforms a Sun box that's $100,000. So why would 
> > anyone buy Sun anymore, when they can buy row upon row of NT-
> > powered Compaq machines?"
> > -- Bill Dunlap, Microsoft Product Manager for Visual J++
> > Copyright 1998, NEWS/400
> > http://www.news400.com
> > 
> > 
> >  John Carr CDP
> >  Certified IBM Specialist  - RPG
> >  EdgeTech
> >  804-739-7689
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> >  Midlothian Va 23112
> >  74711.77@compuserve.com
> > 
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