RE: OS/400 command set

[Mike Haston ** Data <MJH@xxxxxxx>]

Amazing.  I'm no marketing guy (thank goodness), but why wouldn't IBM make
one of their clever little commercials outlining what is in the example
below?  I'll have to save this snippet for my buddies that told me not to
get into the 400 world five years ago because it was dead! <vbg>

This is especially humorous to me because I'm hearing the horror stories
from my last shop that is going from the 400 to run SAP on Sun boxes.
Twenty boxes to replace one iSeries.  A Unix person, an Oracle DBA and all
they hear is operations on the phone saying "we have servers down"!


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Syd Nicholson [mailto:sydnic@ccs400.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:43 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: OS/400 command set


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Good on yer Joe.
There is nothing to beat an iSeries.
Here is an example
I have a client (a small engineering concern) with a single P05 270 running
their entire business. The iSeries runs

DNS server
DHCP server
Print server
NetServer - Very busy as file server for shop floor - No Windows NT or 2000
server in sight (or even on site)
Internet gateway - direct attach to internet with security products
installed
Mail server
FTP
TELNET
Accounts/Job costing system (in RPG ILE) - all ledgers, purchasing,
invoicing,
job tracing, etc
Fax Server

They have no IT staff. The iSeries system sits under desk and hums away
quietly, never hiccuping and still giving excellent performance.
Their IT running costs are very low. What better advert can we get for this
computer system. A single Windows server certainly could not cope with all
this workload.
Syd