RE: Help Save the iSeries

I picked this up off the Midrange-L list some time ago.  Some of the
figures might be a year or so out of date.  You might find it helpful:

Trivia Question - Name the system that...

·    Has the highest customer satisfaction index, as measured by a public
technical trade publication, in the industry?
·    Allows deployment of Linux, Java, UNIX, Windows 2000 and Domino based
applications on a single server?
·    Is the first system to deliver 16Mbit and 64Mbit Memory Drams?
·    Has never had a reported virus while customers have had security
functions operational?
·    Is the first midrange system to deliver hardware data compression for
both disk and tape with 2-3X compression?
·    Delivers vector coded indexes for Business Intelligence applications
offering 10X improvement in performance?
·    Is the first system to deliver a Systems Managed Access Path
Protection (SMAPP) for Journaling?
·    Is the first commercial system to have the world's fastest cross-bar
memory switch?
·    Has had over 300 different processors in its history and no customer
has ever had to recompile their application code?
·    Ships with over 300 processor chips under the covers of a single
"system"?
·    Can have 16 PC Servers under its covers running 4 different operating
systems while sharing the host systems DASD?
·    Has more patents and copyrights than most of its competitors do for
their entire company's product line?
·    Is the only system that ships over 30M lines of code (functionality)
in its operating system, all integrated and guaranteed by one service team,
world wide?
·    Is so easy to install that one customer installed almost 60 of them a
day for a year, i.e. 15,300 systems?
·    Has proven in a 2 year study that it can deliver 99.97% availability?
·    Has proven its operating system can operate for more than 1 year
without ever requiring a re-IPL, in hundreds of customer shops?
·    Is only system listed in the top-ten performance of all four public
commercially oriented benchmarks like TPC-C, NotesBench, SAP, CSLabs?
·    Is the only system that can directly (natively) support 10 different
file structure, like PC files, UNIX file, Netware files, Domino files,
ASCII files, EBCDIC files?
·    Was running 64-bit RISC processors seamlessly with all existing
software as far back as 1995?
·    Is sold and supported in every country that IBM does business in?
·    Was declared "dead" by two consultants in two magazines, 8 years ago
when it shipped the 100,000th system?
·    Continues to break industry sales records and has now shipped over
650,000 systems?
·    Is architected, designed, built, tested and supported from one of the
coldest places in USA?

Answer:      AS400.... for Extreme Business! Share the News

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