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

I believe the entire cast of M*A*S*H appeared, except Alda, who I
believe was at the time doing ads for Apples's Macintosh.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Giusto [SMTP:JDG@patuxent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 3:46 PM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      FW: Rows of NT vs 1 N-way
> 
> 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 !).   :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Neil 
> > 
> > > -----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
> 
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