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Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries




Jerry,
What WAS interesting was talking to a IT Dir at a casino/hotel that had wanted to replace all the front desk check in 5250 devices with GUI/Windows... The front desk people bitched so loudly that GUI/Windows was slowing them down that the GUI was replaced accross the board with 5250 devices again... :) 

Don in DC

At 10:52 AM 1/17/2006 -0600, you wrote:

Don,

I hadn't heard that.  Every time I talk with one of the casino guys at
COMMON things seem stable.  But, then, those are obviously the ones
still on the iSeries.


I know that Harrah's down the road (Memphis) was hiring "AS/400"
programmers last year.  Just a tad too far for me to drive to consider.


        * Jerry C. Adams
*iSeries Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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        615.893.8633x152
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Don wrote:

>What do you think!?   Same story you hear everywhere else.  Same thing we
>rehash here all the time.  Same thing that IBM choses to ignore.
>
>
>
>At 08:34 AM 1/17/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Don,
>> What is causing the casinos to change?  Has someone developed a superior
>>product or are there
>>some snake oil saleman peddling soloutions?
>>Vance
>>
>>--- Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>>--
>>>>
>>>>Paul Nelson
>>>>Arbor Solutions, Inc.
>>>>708-670-6978  Cell
>>>>pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>So aren't the American Indian casinos in the continental USA.
>>>>
>>>>Jack Derham
>>>>Direct Systems, Inc.
>>>>
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>>>>From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>Oddly enough, most of the Native Corporations in Alaska are running
>>>>iSeries boxes. I wonder why.......  :-))
>>>>--
>>>>
>>>>Paul Nelson
>>>>Arbor Solutions, Inc.
>>>>708-670-6978  Cell
>>>>pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>
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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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                 * Jerry C. Adams
>>>>*iSeries Programmer/Analyst
>>>>B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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>>>>GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Maybe the "i' now stands for invisible?
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards, Jerry
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