Re: Wanna get REALLY pissed off ?

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Booth,

what was really interesting was to read the WSJ arcitle on 10/3 on B9 (WSJ
REALLY BURRIED THAT BABY!) in which the TOP PRICE of the I400 was
$100k...:)

Don in DC

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 booth@martinvt.com wrote:

> Excepting one fact more, Jim. 
> 
> The word now is that the AS/400 and OS/400 comes in giant size too.  The 
> largest AS/400 is larger than the largest 390.  So, you can go from the 
> smallest server to the largest, all on OS/400.
> 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> http://www.MartinVT.com
> _______________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Langston <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 10/10/2000 06:26 PM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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> 
> Did anyone besides me watch the Real Player movie about the discussion?
> 
> The main point they made was that to go from a lower end business (AS/400)
> to a higher end business (IBM Mainframe) you have to change operating 
> systems.
> (0S400 to OS360 ???).  In and of itself this is fairly true.
> 
> I would not agree with the fact that you can't do anything with an AS/400. 
> 
> Perhaps in the past that may have been true, but now the AS/400 has pretty
> much become a full network server.
> 
> So, I would agree with half of what the article said.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:40:45 -0700
> From: Ted Barry <TBARRY@smtpgate.centralsan.dst.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: Wanna get REALLY pissed off ?
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> These guys obviously don't know what they're talking about.  Agreed,
> we need to let them know and they should be forced to print a retraction.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Ted
> 
> >>> Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net> 10/10/00 11:45am >>>
> Click on this:
> 
> 
> http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=971106147&6004REQEVENT
> =&REQINT1=40133&REQSTR1=newsnow
> 
> And read on. The REAL pisser part is the "Both Caray and Menzies
> highlighted problems users have migrating from the AS/400 platform"
> 
> It FIGURES it is on an Oracle slanted site but we have GOT to figure out
> how to get in on this "Behind the Scenes" deal if at all possible and
> dispell this GARBAGE !
> 
> Chuck
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