RE: Thoughts on Enterprise Rent-a-car

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxx>]

Art --

Sooooo ... once again ... Microsoft proves that THEIR product is better!

What product, you ask?

MARKETING!

Peace,

-- Don Schenck


-----Original Message-----
From: Art Tostaine, Jr. [mailto:Art@link400.com]
Sent: June 21, 2000 9:33 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Thoughts on Enterprise Rent-a-car


This is happening RIGHT NOW at a customer of mine.  All is true except they
got sold before they got
a new CIO.

The CIO's goal was to get them on a more modern "NT" platform.  Before he
was hired, and they were
using my code on the 400, they had NO inhouse staff.  Just my consulting
firm doing AS/400 and
application support, and another guy running around hooking up PC's to talk
to the 400 and run a UPS
manifesting system (written by him in Paradox)

The CIO gets hired to fix everything, now there are 9 people on staff, and
not one new application
rolled out by them in 2 years.

They have a mighty slow TCP/IP WAN in place though.
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