Re: Shopping at AS400 sites

["Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe Pluta said:
> 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

I received an email with a link to the picture.  It sure looked like an old
9309 rack-style AS/400.  The next day it was gone....

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:50 PM
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).
>
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