Re: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"

With 100 times the overhead and 100 times less stability as using "big
iron". ;)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@hotmail.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"


> >From one of the kings of hype - Marc Andreesson - one of the creators of
the
> Mosaic Browser at NCSA and formerly of Netscape?...
>
> <LOL>
>
> I also got a big laugh about a project that my current client is working
on.
> They have literally spent millions of dollars on a PC-based order entry
> system developed in VB6.  When they determined that is was going to be too
> difficult to manage it as a FAT client, they now have Citrix servers to
> handle multiple order entry users through terminal services sessions...
>
> Wait a minute!
> Didn't we used to have multiple users on dumb terminals running
green-screen
> applications on a central AS/400?
>
> Guess we have come full circle....
>
> Now it's a PC-frame...not a main-frame...