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Chris Without a doubt that needs to be done too. I think Vega was around 70% AS/400's at the casinos and Atlantic City near 100 % of the casinos. I think the Mirage(?) was just written up for a system where hotel people meet you at the door with Palm's and register you, check you in, encode your room key all while you are just coming thru the door(everything going to the AS/400 of course). You never have to see the front desk. The war has a couple of front lines. (oh ya, how many know that the war crime court in The Hague has all it's files on an AS/400). These ALL need to be done. We can all pick a battle that interests us. John ---------------------------------- I am slightly more reserved in my visions. I just have visions of the many people who actually depend on AS/400s finding out about it. In Las Vegas, every major property operates primarily off of IBM midrange (or at least they all did). That's because Las Vegas requires 24/7 dependability. Even the Mirage Resorts, which tried several very expensive projects to replace their 400s with NT had to keep the boxes around for handling business infrastructure. But how many employees know their paychecks were printed on a 400? Or how many people had any idea their rooms, banking, phone services, whatever were handled by AS/400 because that machine kept purring. I used to equate it to a pacemaker. When you buy a pacemaker, will you pick the shiniest, or the most reliable? If your manager bought you the shiniest, was he really a good manager? Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net ----------------------------------- jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote: I have visions of magazines getting 5,000 to 10,000 emails asking for iSeries coverage in stead of 5 to 10 emails. I have visions of IBM people getting 5,000 - 10,000 messages about our views instead of 5 to 10 messages. John Carr +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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