RE: OT - What iSeries box are you Running?

My company has over 45 (AS/400's, iSeries, i5's, whatever) throughout the
world of varied sizes and flavors.  In addition, my parent company is the
largest iSeries customer in the country with over 1,500 of them throughout
the country.  They were all upgraded from as/400's to iSeries last year.

Larry Ketzes
Senior Security Project Analyst
American Life Insurance Company

One ALICO Plaza
600 King Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-594-2146
Mobile: 302-559-1631
Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: OT - What iSeries box are you Running?

One of our resellers keeps telling us the box is dead and we need to move 
away from it, they complain all the time about IBM and keep pitching HP to 
us and windoze......all the while when I talk to support line their response

is no change is anywhere near the horizon, an this is coming from folks who 
are highly p***ed off at IBM for dropping the pension plan.

Personally, I think it is resellers trying to make a huge buck by pusing 
people to swap out their hardware and nothing more.  Yes, sales dollars are 
down, but there are new customers coming online with the iSeries and we are 
one of them within the past year.



On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:06:01 -0800, Pat Barber wrote
> Based on what appears on this thread, the box seems to be
> doing quite well. I see several million dollars worth of
> hardware from just eight responses.
> 
> This sort of flies in the face of the doomsday folks and
> makes me believe every single company hasn't lost their
> mind.
> 
> This appears to be a very postive thing from a very limited
> response.
> 
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.