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A funny (albeit unverified) piece on server change-overs.

----- Forwarded message from Michael Lueck -----

Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's
Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a user
conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software
distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around the
world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to RISC, and
was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he said. Then
came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of dedicated service
during a period of great revenue growth, the company decided that it was
time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, the company unplugged
its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it needed to replace them.

But things didn't quite go as planned. "They found they couldn't make it
work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one year after unplugging their
AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That company is Microsoft. "They
viewed that as a point of embarrassment," Soltis said. "We thought it was
kind of fun....Can you think of a company with greater incentive to move
to NT, and they couldn't do it?"

----- End forwarded message -----

Posted by thinkum at June 30, 2004 09:43 AM