RE: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Rehm [mailto:javadisciple@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:33 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership




Westdorp, Tom wrote:

>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.
>
I sure remember the attempt at Back Office. They went to the expense of 
hiring in Microsoft's consulting firm.
==========> HUGE expense!
>
>
>/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
>
I don't see the Boyd group, when V4R1 was released, they were an IBM 
featured customer at the announce. Like 13 properties. I think they have 
7 major ones, counting the Stardust, Sam's Town, Eldorado, Fremont, 
California,Jokers Wild, Main Street Station. Maybe I'm thinking of the 
properties they run outside of Vegas, though.

========> Boyd only switched over the Stardust, rest may be /400 but as
S/36.

I think it might be easier to try and name the places without 400s. But 
the truth is, I don't know that they don't run them, I just haven't been 
in there. Horseshoe, etc.
=========> Horsehoe & Mint are on /400's, same company now and I forgot
them.  Also Lady Luck.

Westward Ho. Actually, they were a S/36 shop refusing to go to an 
AS/400, but they sure were IBM midrange. I just don't know if they still 
exist in that little cubby hole between the Circus Circus and Stardust. 
Surely a profitable little property.
Is the ShowBoat still afloat? Another 400 shop, but those nasty Station 
casinos sure put the business pressure on them.

==========> Showboat's gone, Harrah's bought them, sold them, now called
Castaways.  Systems ==========> unsettled I hear.
==========> Station Casinos -> kickin' ass, takin' names!

>
>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
>
Silver Legacy.

===========> forgot about them.  Another senior moment

>
>
>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
>
But really, isn't the question "Who doesn't run a 400?" I don't remember 
ever being in the Fitsgerald's MIS shop.
========> I don't know what they run wither.  Reno fitz had /400's as s/36's

And what happened to the Maxim? Are they one of your "to be announced" 
projects? Silverbird? Both were 400 shops.
========> Maxim only operates a hotel, in chronic bankruptcy.  May have /400
now but were a s/36 & ========> s/38 shop, long after that era was over.
========> Silverbird????


========> I don't count /400's pretending to be s/36's.  Others may do so.
========> Tom Westdorp

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[Chris Rehm javadisciple@earthlink.net]


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