RE: Microsoft and AS/400

["Westdorp, Tom" <tom.westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't trust Dr Frank?!?!?!?!

Heresy!

-----Original Message-----
From: booth@martinvt.com [mailto:booth@martinvt.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:08 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft and AS/400


This story is becoming an Urban Legend.   Dr. Frank loves his work, the 
AS/400, and people in general but it worries me that he may be a tad over 
enthusiastic with this story.   I sure wish there was confirmation from 
some other source.


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Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@RHTelCo.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
10/24/2000 02:45 PM
Please respond to MIDRANGE-L

 
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        cc:     Scott.Belk@BankOfAmerica.com, nickyet@millenicom.com,
rdetjen@infoave.net
        Subject:        Microsoft and AS/400
This was from another list to which I am currently subscribed...

This was on the SAP400 newsgroup.

For all the AS/400 followers out there, you need to get your hands on a 
copy of the Midrange Technology Showcase November issue. There is an 
article on the front page entitled "IBM's Frank Soltis, Uncensored". 
Here's an excerpt:

Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's 
Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a 
user conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software 
distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around 
the world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to 
RISC, and was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he 
said. Then came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of 
dedicated service during a period of great revenue growth, the company 
decided that it was time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, 
the company unplugged its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it 
needed to replace them. But things didn't quite go as planned. "They 
found they couldn't make it work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one 
year after unplugging their AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That 
company is Microsoft. "They viewed that as a point of embarrassment," 
Soltis said. "We thought it was kind of fun....Can you think of a 
company with greater incentive to move to NT, and they couldn't do it?"
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