RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

We ran an ES/9000 for a few years, before that we had
a 4381.  Our downtime was miniscule... IMO, if a company 
is running a Z-Series mainframe and they're going down 2-3 
times a week - somebody should be fired or problematic 
hardware should be replaced by IBM.  I'm surprised that
a company can not achieve the proverbial five 99999's 
with a Z-Series platform - it should be as reliable as 
an iSeries (at a minimum).

Terry

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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Collins
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:10 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts
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> This is crazy. The best platform that IBM has is the iSeries 
> and what gets
> the most promotion on TV? The zSeries aka mainframe. I am 
> doing work with a
> transportation company that is at the 1/2 Billion dollar mark 
> in revenue and
> was operating an IBM Mainframe to run there business. They were having
> issues with the machine going down 2 or 3 times a week. This had been
> happening for over a year. 
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> HOSS
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