Never seen that video but years ago someone from US IBM wich is very close
to the platform told to a very small audience something like that:
"...most of MS accounting and distribution services were AS/400 based, they
migrated part of it to hundreds o Windows servers to find it wasn't
practical and switched back to AS/400..."
Never heard about MS accounting done by third party, that's new for me.
Anyway, to me such video is only a curiosity, why can't MS run part of their
business on AS/400?
Regards,
Rubens
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De: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Em nome de Ketzes, Larry
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 16 de maio de 2008 13:48
Para: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Assunto: RE: IBM & Microsoft
I heard the same thing. It was just really interesting seeing all these
Microsoft folks touting our platform on camera.
Larry Ketzes | Senior iSeries System Administrator | AIG / ALICO - American
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:01 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: IBM & Microsoft
What I had been told was that MS used AS/400s for accounting systems and
that they spun off that part of the organization as its own company that
still does all the accounting for MS and they still use iSeries but since it
was no longer MS they could say they stopped using them.
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ketzes, Larry
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:28 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: IBM & Microsoft
I wish. It is a very well guarded video, and I would not divulge in this
forum how I saw it as that would put someone in an uncomfortable position,
but I believe it to be around 12 years old or so. Gates spoke to the
platforms great security and other things.
If anyone wants to discuss further offline, that would be cool.
Larry Ketzes | Senior iSeries System Administrator | AIG / ALICO - American
Life Insurance Company One ALICO Plaza, 600 N. King Street, AMIS |
Wilmington, DE 19801 | *:
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graap, Kenneth
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: IBM & Microsoft
Can you provide us a link to it?
Kenneth
Kenneth E. Graap
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ketzes, Larry
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:56 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: IBM & Microsoft
I'm not sure how politically correct this question is, but here goes:
Has anyone on this list, other than myself, ever seen the approximately 20
minute video featuring Microsoft employee's (including I think Gates)
touting their use of AS/400's at Redmond?
Larry
Larry Ketzes | Senior iSeries System Administrator | AIG / ALICO - American
Life Insurance Company One ALICO Plaza, 600 N. King Street, AMIS |
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