RE: Testimony and heterogeneous network talk -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

I don't know if I'm posting this correctly, I've always just read the messages 
from this list, never tried to enter into the conversations before.  But I feel 
like I need to concur with this point.  Regardless of all the other 
networking/software/hardware issues that are plaguing techs today, the AS/400 
stands as a model of efficiency, as far as I'm concerned, anyway.  I sort of 
had the whole "administration" thing just dumped into my lap a few months ago.  
I was just a regular user, NO EXPERIENCE with administration whatsoever.  It's 
a true testament to the stability of the system that it can just run and run 
with no intervention from me...because I couldn't intervene if I had to.  Sure, 
I'm working on getting the necessary training...which is one of the reasons I 
signed up for lists like this...and eventually, I may actually know what I'm 
doing - emphasis on EVENTUALLY.  But regardless of my adequacy or inadequacy 
for the job, the machine will keep running..and running...and running...I'm 
tempted to paint it pink, like the Energizer bunny...

Marsha in Florida


-----Original Message-----
From:   "Mark Villa" <markvilla@knology.net> [SMTP:"Mark Villa" 
<markvilla@knology.net>]
Sent:   Friday, March 08, 2002 7:38 AM
To:     iSMTP@GC2A@Servers[<midrange-nontech@midrange.com>]
Subject:        Testimony and heterogeneous network talk

Most all the messages on the mother conference seem to contain questions of
operability within the 2002 version of the heterogeneous network. Even PTF's
are addressing this "operability".
When I started at this just a few years back bridges between networks were
fewer than the handful of modems. Internet was not in the vocabulary and
dial up was king.

I would just like to say that during all these network changes I witnessed a
decade of AS/400 uptime.
I would like to note that of 110 retail store processors I observed, more
than one stayed up from upgrade to upgrade with no maintenance whatsoever
and handful suffered DASD failures, probably from dirty power, operating
environment and heat.
This machine is so reliable store managers did not even know which one it
was or what it did.

How can any business owner ignore this for eye candy technology on an
overgrown toy?

It would seem that the better salesman is all....that matters.

It is interesting to sit back a look at the forest, the array of concerns
all of us have in our networked shop.


Mark Villa in Charleston SC


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