RE: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership

To clarify:

MGM Mirage (MGM Grand, Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio) use Tandem
computers.  Mirage wanted to use Back Office and blew millions trying.  They
won't run a /400 if there's any alternative, with no apparent regard to cost
effectiveness.

/400's are at:
Harrah's & Rio
Park Place Entertainment (Caesars, Bally's, Flamingo Hilton, Paris, Big
Hilton)
Aladdin
Mandalay Resort Group (Circus Circus, Luxor, Mandalay, Excalibur)
Sahara
Riviera
Frontier (not sure if 400's still there)
Tropicana
New York, New York
Monte Carlo
4 Queens
Stardust
in Primm, Whiskey Pete's and Buffalo Bill's
and last, but not least!, Station Casinos (Palace, Boulder, Sunset, Texas,
Santa Fe, Fiesta, Reserve, Wild Wild West, Barley's and (Coming Soon) Green
Valley Ranch)

Tahoe has /400's at Harrah's, Harveys, Caesars and there used to be /400's
at the other too (forget the name)

Reno has /400's at Bally's, Flamingo Hilton, Harrah's, Peppermill

Atlantic City may well be all /400's as most are owned by Trump, Harrah's,
or Park Place and those are all /400 shops.

There may be others in hotel/casino, too.  I'm old and forget things.

By /400 I mean some variant of /400, /400e, e(logo)server iSeries.


Tom Westdorp
Station Casinos



-----Original Message-----
From: jpcarr@tredegar.com
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent: 6/19/01 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership


Chris
Without a doubt that needs to be done too.  I think Vega was around 70%
AS/400's at the casinos and Atlantic City near 100 % of the casinos.   I
think the Mirage(?) was just written up for a system where hotel people
meet you at the door with Palm's and register you,  check you in, encode
your room key all while you are just coming thru the door(everything
going
to the AS/400 of course).  You never have to see the front desk.     The
war has a couple of front lines.    (oh ya,  how many know that the war
crime court in The Hague has all it's files on an AS/400).    These ALL
need to be done.    We can all pick a battle that interests us.

John

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I am slightly more reserved in my visions. I just have visions of the
many
people who actually depend on AS/400s finding out about it. In Las
Vegas,
every major property operates primarily off of IBM midrange (or at least
they all did). That's because Las Vegas requires 24/7 dependability.
Even
the Mirage Resorts, which tried several very expensive projects to
replace
their 400s with NT had to keep the boxes around for handling business
infrastructure.
But how many employees know their paychecks were printed on a 400? Or
how
many people had any idea their rooms, banking, phone services, whatever
were handled by AS/400 because that machine kept purring.
I used to equate it to a pacemaker. When you buy a pacemaker, will you
pick
the shiniest, or the most reliable? If your manager bought you the
shiniest, was he really a good manager?
Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net


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jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:



I have visions of magazines getting 5,000 to 10,000 emails asking for
iSeries coverage in stead of 5 to 10 emails.

I have visions of IBM people getting 5,000 - 10,000 messages about our
views instead of 5 to 10 messages.


John Carr


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