Re: Number of installed AS/400s

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:00 AM 5/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Okay, found my handouts from consultant's seminar last week. The exact
wording on the
>foil (probably didn't spell that right but...) is "600,000+ shipped
worldwide".
>
>Somehow, even if some of them were upgrades, etc. I still suspect a much
higher % of
>"shipped" machines are "operating" than the NT server copies MS loves to
crow about.
>Given that I have a client with 3 copies installed and only one in use
(and that by
>ONE user in the payroll dept. whose outside service company required NT
server even
>for a single user) I don't find much credence in MS's numbers.
>
>And as has been pointed out before, a single small AS/400 performs all the
functions
>that it might take a half dozen NT servers to perform since MS warns that
each NT
>server should be used for a single function in order to obtain the highest
>reliability.
>(Err, excuse me, did I use the words NT server and reliability in the same
sentence?
>Pardon me!!)
>
>Randy Mangham
  I don't think it matters with such large numbers.

An example I'd give most of  least year  to  mixed audiences  at National
Year 2000 conferences  was: While there  was a significant number [6 digit]
of AS/400  that had not started  yet - - -  that the number of AS/400
remediated each year was greater then the entire  mainfreme install
inventory world wide.

Regards,

Glenn
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