Re: Number of installed AS/400s

["kevinw" <kevinw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

my 5362 will still  be running after 12/31/99... but then again it is not a
business support system...  I use it for development/maintenance for some
AS/36 systems from home.  Heck... my 5362 already thinks it is 2000
anyway!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Art Baker <Art_Baker@baan.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 5:18 PM
Subject: RE: Number of installed AS/400s


> I wonder how many of these AS400 machines will be running after 12/31/99?
I
> know of one company that has an old AS400 that has not been upgraded in 10
> years. They are just going to turn it off at the end of this year (they
> already have another system setup).
> Art
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fisher, Don [mailto:DRF@HeiligMeyers.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 2:54 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Number of installed AS/400s
>
>
> 550,000, eh?
>
> I wonder, being the cynical person that I am, how many of those
"installed"
> AS/400s are still running.  Does this number include all AS/400s ever
> installed, including ones that have been replaced by newer models and
> subsequently discarded?
>
> And then there's the question of whether a single AS/400 can be counted
> multiple times by being installed at one site, replaced by a newer model,
> installed at another site, and so on.
>
> Don't get me wrong folks.  I'd like to believe that number, but the use of
> the word "installed" rather than "operating" makes me very suspicious.
>
> Donald R. Fisher, III
> Project Manager
> Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
> (804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
> Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com
> <clip>
> >Supposedly there are over 500,000 AS/400s installed around the world.
> <clip>
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