RE: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

That is also a trend that is regretably changing.

Don in DC


At 09:18 AM 1/17/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> I think most of the casinos, period, are on the iSeries.
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> So aren't the American Indian casinos in the continental USA.
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> Oddly enough, most of the Native Corporations in Alaska are running
> iSeries boxes. I wonder why.......  :-))
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> I have a friend that has been in advertising since we graduated from
> college (30+) and now a CEO-type.  He was, shall we say, disdainful when
> I was explaining on what system I program: "Never heard of it."
> Naturally, I had to set him right and, up to a point, succeeded.  But
> his company has (a farm of?) Windows server(s) and just dumping them for
> an iSeries even with an on board Windows server is not something he's
> likely to do.
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> IBM has a huge investment in Linux and Java (and, of course, OS/400).
> Plus these seem to be two of the big things these days in the IT
> curricula so they're hitting where the grads and "buzz" are these days.
> I'm not surprised.
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> My friend (see above) said I ought to sell iSeries systems, but I think
> the truth is that we all should.  I was watching a TV show on the Inuit
> (Eskimos) a few days ago.  Not Nanook of the North; use snowmobiles
> instead of sleds (at least the part I saw).  Anyway, it made me think of
> an ad.
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> A cultural anthropologist new to the area, apparently, is talking to an
> Inuit when another Inuit drives by on a dog sled.  "Oh, that's Caleb.
> Got one hell of a Windows server."  Next minute, the sled topples over.
> Then another Inuit whizzes by on his snowmobile.  "Oh, that's Joshua.
> Got an IBM iSeries server.  Runs, Linux, OS/400, AIX and has an on board
> Windows server."  As Joshua zooms over the hill and out of sight, "You
> know I've never seen him fall over."
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