Re: Java Benchmarks - AS/400 Kicks - A#$

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find extremely few NT's doing more than single app processing (e-mail,
word processing, communication, data warehouse, etc), which, in my
definition, is not a multi-user commercial business computer. It's a
departmental or specialty processor.
Jim Franz
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From: <boothm@earth.Goddard.edu>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Java Benchmarks - AS/400 Kicks - A#$


> John, the article was interesting, and the AS/400 is not just another
> machine to me although I don't like to personalize computers (they don't
> like that you know).
>
> But I just can't figure out why a number of 700,000 shipments over 10+
> years is so exciting and makes it the "...world's most popular multi-user
commercial business computer".   NT sales are in the millions and we know
that an NT server license
> means at least one multi-user server.
>
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> Look at this.   I think you should send this post to every writer of every
> magazine and ask why they haven't written something on it.    Just a
> Thought.
>
> On the other hand, If the AS/400 is just another computer to you,  ignore
> this post.
>
> John Carr
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