RE: Shopping at AS400 sites

["Norbut, Jim" <Jim.Norbut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rumors are more "fun" than facts :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:51 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Shopping at AS400 sites

> From: Norbut, Jim
>
> Heh...apple computer uses AS/400's :)
> Of course I heard rumors Microsoft does too.

Why do some people think this is a rumor?  It's established fact that
Microsoft used a lot of AS/400's.  The only question is whether they
still
use them.  Microsoft insists they do not, and nobody knows for sure.   A
consistently heard story is that MS has simply outsourced their AS/400
work
to an AS/400 service provider.  There has been no actual proof that MS
runs
their business on any of their own software or hardware, except for
their
network stuff (that's the stuff, like MSN, that we've seen keel over
from
time to time).

Among the fun pieces of circumstantial evidence that AS/400 is a big
part of
the MS corporate culture was a page on their own site a few months ago.
I
can't remember the exact circumstances now, but I think it was a page
about
MS business servers, and on that page was a nice picture of a computer
room.
The only problem was that the server in the picture was an AS/400
<grin>.

Joe

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