[krikkets-humour] just had to share...]

[david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net (David Kramer)]

>From the keynote at COMMON...big AS/400 conference...by Dr. Frank
>Soltis, creator of the System 38 and AS/400:
>
>It seems that there was a large software company that had 23 high-
>end AS/400s around the globe, and had been using them heavily for
>5 years...good customers, upgrading hardware, software, went from
>48-bit CISC  to 64-bit RISC, really used and appreciated their 400s.
>
>Well, along comes June/July 1999, and due to Y2K issues, the decision
>is made to migrate to NT. To replace these 23 AS/400s will require
>the installation and configuration of 1200 NT servers. (not a typo,
>1200. Chuck will understand why this is ;-) One problem....they can't
>get it to work. So here it is, mid-2000, and they are back on their
>23 AS/400s.
>
>The name of the company:
>
>Microsoft.
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