RE: IBM & Olympics

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Booth,

I think there's another reason.  IBM has invested a massive amount in AS/400
R&D (I wish I could remember how many $100M).  No company spends that kind
of money on something they think is insignificant.  $100,000,000 is not
chump change--even for IBM. ;-)

I, personally, wouldn't even speculate on how this happened.

jt




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Booth wrote:

No John, it shows how insignificant the AS/400 is in their world.  It
shows how small a part of their pie we really are.   I suspect IBM's sales
figures wouldn't have to be rounded very far for AS/400 sales to round to
zero.
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Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM
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Ah Ya,.   I saw it on Infoworld a couple of days ago.
Jarosh is now aware of it....

Really shows IBM's emphisis  don't it ?

John Carr
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Last few Olympics, IBM had some AS400s running part
of the massive operation. According to the current  web site,
there are 390s running the main scoring system. the  web is
all RS/6000 SP running WebSphere & MQ Series.  Games
management is all Netfinity. Statistics is RS6000  w/Lotus Domino
and MQ Series. It's  a shame IBM could not demonstrate their
"complete" server line. Perhaps they are just  missing from the
web site "technology" page.  Jim

"Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>


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