RE: AS/400

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

The system is the system.  The system is not the box.  The system involves
several things:
  the box(es)
  the network
  the software
  the operations
Downtime could be caused by any number of things.  The change to NT could
just duplicate the same problems.
They might continue to have comm problems, if they store the server off
site.
They might continue to have operations problems - "screw time differences,
we'll back up when we want to".  Or "stay out while we run period end".
They might continue to have software problems - "stay out when we do this,
and God is it slow".
Yet, often a change in some components results in a change in many.  For
example, so as not to have egg on their faces, the NT people might move
from two Dixie cups and a string to a more resilient comm solution.

Having operations in many states, and a few countries, has taught us a few
tricks.  Like our division in Colorado that thought our comm solution was
expensive until their fly-by-night internet provider folded.

Granted, in these lean times, some are thinking of either how to utilize
their T1's better, or even drop back to frame relay.

Rob Berendt

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A smart person learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.


                                                                                
                                         
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<snip>
My father (not a technical person.  Plant manager for a plastics company)
and I were talking a few months back and I asked him what type of computers
they used at work he basically told me me it was some peice of crapola
called the as/400 and he was trying to  convince management to move to NT.
After talking with him a little longer I discovered he was complaing that
the system was down all of the time.  His 400 is in California he works in
Houston, tx what he was really complaining about was his connection to the
400.  With people like my pop complaing about the 400 how does an MIS staff
stand a chance with management when it comes time to evaluate the 400....
<endsnip>


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