Olympics & AS400 followup -- MIDRANGE-L

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A few days ago I commented on the lack of AS400s in IBMs

Olympic solution. Well, NewsWire today reported:

snip> Out of site of the public attention, the AS/400 has a role in the
Games. <snip> . The Sydney Organizing Committee for
the Olympic Games employs an AS/400 to run its business operations.
The committee uses the box to purchase and direct the delivery of
equipment needed for 28 sports and 300 medal events -- including the
gold, silver, and bronze medals.AS/400-based enterprise resource

planning (ERP) back-office financial applications manage ...

Unfortunately Rochester failed to get listed in the technology credits

of the official web site by IBM. S390...RS6000...Netfinity... were all

listed as being part of the Olymics (& not just the web site itself).

A zillion hits and we are not in the list...

Jim

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