RE: as400 as exchange server

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

While I agree that NT bashing does get old, and that  NT has a lot going 
for it (Hey, Windows 2000 has been out a month and sold 7 1/2 million 
copies already), I am curious about the paradigm.   They have 20 NT 
servers?  20?!? That is a big number.  Why so many? 

I ask that because I see NT servers litter server farm racks like baggage 
on  an airlines baggage cart.  But then see one or maybe two AS/400 
machines off to one side doing the work of the organization. 

What is it that all of those servers are doing?  Why do they need all the 
boxes?  What is the feature they are getting by having 20 boxes?

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Booth Martin
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http://www.spy.net/~booth
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"Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@WL.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
03/15/2000 03:02 PM
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        To:     "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
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        Subject:        RE: as400 as exchange server


Ya know, this WinNT bashing gets really old and NOT realistic.

WHY is it that my client has 20 ... COUNT 'EM TWENTY ... NT boxes and 
during
the past 30 months that I have been here they have not had one, NOT ONE,
crash.

Perhaps they know what they're doing???



-----Original Message-----
From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
Sent: March 15, 2000 1:13 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: as400 as exchange server


> Switch from MS exchange to the AS/400! You'd have to be crazy! Never
> mind all the Microsoft bashing, exchange is great and if you put it a
> standalone server and just leave it, it will keep running and running
> and.....

Exchange server will only run until Win*** crashes and the same goes for
any product for Win***, when the OS is up your server software is up and
that is that.
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