Re: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million) !!!

["Charly Jones" <charly301@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went to their web site at www.sobeys.com - very "flashy" and slow,
at least at 28.8 - but impressive...

Sobeys Inc. is the second largest food distributor in Canada, operating more 
than 400 corporate stores, approximately 1000 franchised stores and the 
largest foodservice business in the country.

In business since 1907 and still largely run by the Sobey family, Sobeys is 
headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia and has operations in every 
province from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

I based my AS/400 iSeries System/38 swtatements on the IBM
performance guru I met several years ago that was based in Montreal,
I think.  She was working pretty hard on a SAP Retail install in
her nexk of the woods that was having some interesting performance
problems.  Her "advocate" or primary contact with Rochester
was Brian Clark.  I was impressed.  Brian has spent a lot of
time in Germany helping SAP port to the 38/400/iSeries.  He also
is an IBM Fellow and inventor of some of the really great stuff
inside the box.  I think he might have been involved when
system state/domain and user state/domain was invented.  I do
remember a COMMON conference where he disclosed that they
had a plan to open it up without making a mess. I distinctly
remember a great big "Chesire cat grin" on his face.  Which
allowed IBM to think that it was safe to "open up" the
architecture...

I might have misremembered the name of the huge food company
that was involved, but I don't think so...

Charly Jones
Geezer in Gig Harbor


>From: "Neil Palmer" <neilp@dpslink.com>
>
>Well, Charly says AS/400 (possible - I installed a small AS/400 at one of 
>Sobey's small divisions about 5 years ago, but they were using it only for
>purchasing with everything else on HP I believe).  Bernd says 6000.
>For what it's worth, their web site runs Microsoft IIS on NT.
>

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