Nubmers installed and other hot AS/400 topic's (Was: Number of installed AS/400s)

I'm going to participate in a round-table-talk with Frank Soltis on
Tuesday. I'll ask him for the number of Shipped/installed and a guess
about the number of operating ones. 

Also about the schism between AS="APPLICATION system" and AS="advanced
SERVER". Remember (I think is was Mel Bechman) a few years ago
speculating about all this file server stuff: A mean of smuggeling an
as/400 into a shop as a server hoping that sombody will discover it as
beeing a fantastic application system.

But - here is my question: Which other subjects are the most interesting?

> Fra: Randy Mangham <randym69@pacbell.net>
> Til: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Emne: Re: Number of installed AS/400s
> Dato: 15. maj 1999 04:45
> 
> According to the foils presented last week at the Consultants Roadshow
(which was
> aimed at NON AS/400 consultants finally) there are over 600,000
systems. I don't
> know of any documents online that state this figure. Sorry, I'm not
where I have
> Frank Soltis's e-mail address or Malcolm Haines's either (he's the
marketing guy
> at AS/400 HQ).
> 
> Randy Mangham
> Pacific Crest Consulting
> San Diego, CA
> 
> Bob Luebbe wrote:
> 
> > Supposedly there are over 500,000 AS/400s installed around the world.
> >
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