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To: Tony Viola who wrote (80088)	4/26/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony,>>>I'm sure we'll have this exchange again in the not too distant future.<<< A lot sooner than you think. Just because you and I are dinosaurs (by Internet standards) doesn't mean that we have to think like dinosaurs (even though I'm a lot older than you). >>> In fact, the vast majority of Fortune 100 companies continue to upgrade to the latest and greatest CMOS S390's <<< Most of these companies are managed by people older than you - some may even be as old as I am (a few, perhaps) - but a lot of them are not technically savvy - like you and me. I'll bet some have not even logged on to the Internet, yet. >>>The same will be said for American Airlines reservation system<<< Most of the airline reservation systems have been built up from the days when IBM made the 1401 (calculator computer) using card files. They have not changed much since then. You can't, for instance punch in "Tony Viola" and be abel to tell (very easily)what flight you have booked on, who you are travelling with, how many frequent miles you have accummulated, whether you have boarded the light, and if you complete it safely how many total frequent flyer miles you have to your credit. If I were to start up "New Airlines", I would use one of Intel's new datacenters, get a mess of programmers together and I will have a system that will tell me what you are having for breakfast as you are flying over Boston (ostensibly on business) with your wife to Lake Cuomo,Italy, in first class, and only half of you luggage will arrive in Italy when you will. It will also tell me the flight history of you and your family from day one of my system. >>>Aetna's or Prudential's customer base. They damn well want that all in one image, on one fast as possible <<< One image doesn't mean they have to be physically inside of one of your dinosaur CMOS S390s'. Your Platinum customers, for instance, are on one or more servers as are your Gold customers who are on some other servers - all on different servers than those servers serving the less affluent customers. We don't want Scumbria to access our Platinum server with his budget AMD client PC making a lot of statments but not trading his AMD shares. >>>or Daimler-Chrysler's ERP system. <<< I hear that SAP has ordered (ja vol) that their ERP software be ported (if not already done so) to IA32/64 servers. Regards, Mary