RE: Microsoft thwarted again

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<grin>

If you want the same level of "superior" reliability
as a Z/OS machine - then you want an AS/400 (iSeries).

Period.   ;-)

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of McKown, John
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:16 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Microsoft thwarted again
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry
> > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:54 AM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Microsoft thwarted again
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > Microsoft was unable to migrate to Windows NT from some 23 
> > AS/400s that ran an
> > ERP system for the company's manufacturing division, and had 
> > to revert back to
> > the AS/400, which, according to the source, was administered 
> > remotely via an
> > application service provider.
> > 
> > LOL,
> > 
> > Jerry
> 
> And Unisys is one of the vendors here at my shop who is 
> suggesting that
> 3 ES7000 servers running Windows & MS SQL server can be used 
> to "rehost"
> all of our z/OS based systems (batch and CICS) which is running on a
> z800 (2066-0A2) with __superior__ reliability and work-flow.
> 
> BTW - this "rehosting" is why I'm here monitoring this list. Another
> vendor says that they can do the rehosting on a iSeries 550. 
> I'm trying
> to learn iSeries and am fairly impressed with what I've read.
> 
> 
> --
> John McKown
> Senior Systems Programmer
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