Re: Microsoft and AS/400

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> From: DHelms@Lance.com (Debbie Helms)
>  
>  I read this article in Midrange Technology Showcase.  
>  What I want to know is what failed?  
>  Throughput...programs...what?   I realize Dr. Soltis is
>  prejudiced when it comes to the 400 but why don't we have details?

We do not have details because informants are confidential.  For example a 
former employee of M$ in an IBM class, a consultant talking to other people 
about stuff that should have been kept confidential.

Check the archives - this topic has come up several times before, with 
different people supplying snippets of info.

What stuck in my memory was the notion that when you are dealing with 
Terrabytes of information scattered on many different servers it takes a 
while for business rules to be locked into place & no one actually did the 
math to figure out how long it should take, they just gave up after waiting 
for several days & M$ management was told they could have the data but no 
enforcement of their business rules & that was unacceptable.  They had no 
idea if it was going to work if they just waited another week.  They did no 
small scale testing to find out what the problems were.  They made no attempt 
to solve the problem for the customers of M$.  Now this might be the story of 
someone who did not like M$ being repeated several times such that we no 
longer have a true story.

>  Im studing for MCP exam 70-100 Analyzing requirements and Solution
>  Architectures and most of the case type questions are aboubt replacing
>  AS/400s with Microsoft products.

Are there any IBM classes with case type questions about replacing Microsoft 
products with AS/400 solutions?  Should there be?

Alister William Macintyre 
Computer Data Janitor etc. of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 on 400 model 170 OS4 V4R3 
(forerunner to IBM e-Server i-Series 400)  @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central 
Industries of Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and 
electrical sub-assemblies

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