Re: Bernie Madoff used an "IBM AS/400" to run his business ...as reported by Fox Business

[Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Madoff used mainframes. I placed a Project Manager there in 2002. They wanted to move to Oracle but the MF folks refused so they fired my guy but after a year or so.  He may have had the iseries for his private hedge fund co tho.




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From: CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:06:39 PM
Subject: Re: Bernie Madoff used an "IBM AS/400" to run his business ...as reported by Fox Business

   Yep.  They were hiring recently, I was real tempted to apply, but my 
choices for a place to live are currently too restrictive.  I probably 
should have applied, and then only later considered such stuff if 
offered a position.  I am too polite however; i.e. no reason to waste 
their time until I am committed to accepting a job if offered.

   Maybe you could post an evaluation [even if not in comparison to 
another such account] about your experience with their product\services. 
  I have thought about getting an account, but having some input might 
be nice before making the plunge.

Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> Sorry to bring this back up, but I opened a Scottrade account last
> month and finally got around to going down to the local office today
> to sign some papers and transfer in some stock from another account.
>
> Imagine my surprise when I see the broker pull up a nice green screen
>  interactive session on his PC to set this up.  I said "Is that an 
> iSeries?" and of course he had no idea what I was talking about.
> When I finally got him to realize that I was talking about the system
> he was connected to and not the box on his desk he clicked "About"
> and said "You're right, it says Reflections for IBM."
>
> So maybe the iSeries IS ideal for trading stocks...