RE: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries

[Vance Stanley <w_vance_stanley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don,
 What is causing the casinos to change?  Has someone developed a superior 
product or are there
some snake oil saleman peddling soloutions? 
Vance

--- Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> That is also a trend that is regretably changing.
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> Don in DC
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> At 09:18 AM 1/17/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> >I think most of the casinos, period, are on the iSeries.
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> >Paul Nelson
> >Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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> >So aren't the American Indian casinos in the continental USA.
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> >Jack Derham
> >Direct Systems, Inc.
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> >Oddly enough, most of the Native Corporations in Alaska are running
> >iSeries boxes. I wonder why.......  :-))
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> >I have a friend that has been in advertising since we graduated from
> >college (30+) and now a CEO-type.  He was, shall we say, disdainful when
> >I was explaining on what system I program: "Never heard of it."
> >Naturally, I had to set him right and, up to a point, succeeded.  But
> >his company has (a farm of?) Windows server(s) and just dumping them for
> >an iSeries even with an on board Windows server is not something he's
> >likely to do.
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> >IBM has a huge investment in Linux and Java (and, of course, OS/400).
> >Plus these seem to be two of the big things these days in the IT
> >curricula so they're hitting where the grads and "buzz" are these days.
> >I'm not surprised.
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> >My friend (see above) said I ought to sell iSeries systems, but I think
> >the truth is that we all should.  I was watching a TV show on the Inuit
> >(Eskimos) a few days ago.  Not Nanook of the North; use snowmobiles
> >instead of sleds (at least the part I saw).  Anyway, it made me think of
> >an ad.
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> >A cultural anthropologist new to the area, apparently, is talking to an
> >Inuit when another Inuit drives by on a dog sled.  "Oh, that's Caleb.
> >Got one hell of a Windows server."  Next minute, the sled topples over.
> >Then another Inuit whizzes by on his snowmobile.  "Oh, that's Joshua.
> >Got an IBM iSeries server.  Runs, Linux, OS/400, AIX and has an on board
> >Windows server."  As Joshua zooms over the hill and out of sight, "You
> >know I've never seen him fall over."
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> > >Maybe the "i' now stands for invisible?
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> > >Regards, Jerry
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