We need more of these!

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

boy, that sounds like a spam, huh?

we have software for credit reporting and collection agencies, and some
of the agencies have gone to a p/c based collection system, because
that's hot in the industry now.  

1. we have several of these associations that are expressing regret now
over this decision, and last week one finally called and wanted to get
everything back on the as/400.  she expressed frustration about lockups,
reboots, and fear that the p/c based solution was not stable.  she said
with the as/400 they never have these problems. 

2. another association had the tape drive on the as/400 replaced about a
month ago, and the engineer raved to the association manager about how
the as/400 was the best machine ibm ever made, how rock solid and
reliable they were.  the manager passed this on to me, and actually
sounded a little surprised.  this association has been getting heavy
pressure to switch to a unix based product, and last year, i thought
they'd be.  the perception was that the as/400 was just too old and not
on the cutting edge of technology.  but they had a board meeting last
week, and they're staying with us.

3. i was in california last week, and they had a power outage in their
computer room. the as/400 was back up within 20 minutes, but for quite
awhile, they thought they'd lost the disk drive on the p/c server.  it
was down the better part of 1/2 a day.

nj
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