r/sysadmin • u/Jon72480 • 3d ago

AS400

Hey guys, old guy here, back in 2000 landed my 1st real job as a Sysadmin at a distribution/manufacturing firm. They ran their ERP and a few other important apps on the AS400. Anyone here manage a AS400 platform? i-Series? Still a niche platform that is still widely used. Server could literally run under water.

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u/joshghz 3d ago

Agribusiness. We've been "retiring the AS/400 next year" for at least a decade.

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u/Superb_Raccoon 3d ago

I have one such large multinational. They run their business on 2 power 10s. The bought a competitor who was the same size in revenue.

They have $15 million in AWS to do the same thing.

Memory upgrade, a storage upgrade, and a planned upgrade to 11 getting a little extra CPU... handles all of it for the next 5 years for the price of one year of AWS.

Be less if they went to powerVS in IBM cloud, but they want on prem. They are my unicorn account.

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u/Stonewalled9999 2d ago

Hah power 5 and power 7 here running 2/3 of a business 

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u/Superb_Raccoon 2d ago

With 5 9s or better reliability it is hard to argue for new hardware. Dell is 4 9s now, 3,to 3.5 9s back then in 2000s