Re: Shopping at AS400 sites (Microsoft goof)

["Mark Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, all:

If any of you have Windows XP (home edition or Professional)
there is a "Tour" (tutorial) on the CD, and in there, at least in some
versions, there is a section that talks about how "scaleable" and
"secure" Windows-XP is... and there is a picture of a very large,
tan, IMPI CISC AS/400, complete with the Malcolm Baldridge
Award sticker, and in the background, you can clearly see a
"real" 5250 terminal (green-screen).  D'Oh!

IBM should thank Microsoft for all the free publicity!

And, since Microsoft "burned" this onto who-know-how-many
hundreds-of-thousands of CDs, it will be very hard for them to
ever get rid of it completely, let alone, live it down! :-)

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@hotmail.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Shopping at AS400 sites


> > 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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