Re: Stupid AS/400 web site tricks

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Someone said there are over 200,000 web pages connected to _.ibm.com/
>
>That is a really big number and growing geometrically I suspect.  I can not
imagine what it must take to feed the maw of that monster.
>
>Not only feed it, but serve it up on the web, free of charge.  Their pipes
must be huge and expensive.

Call me cynical, but put a pencil to AS/400 Software Subscription revenue
alone.

Let's assume a conservative 50% hit rate of 500,000 , at 3 year prepay
plans, at P20 rates (again, probably conservative).

250,000 * 18,961 = 4,740,250,000

Wow. How many Web pages you think we could get Bleddyn to put up for us for
that!




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