iSeries (aka AS/400) - Best Kept Secret in the Industry 

                          Dick Bains

                  IBM Distinguished Engineer
           IBM Server Group - Data Centric Development

Most students and faculty are unaware that 99% of the Fortune 100 companies 
utilize iSeries and AS/400 systems in their businesses.  Come and interact with
one of the original IBM architects and find out why the system is more advanced
than any system in the industry with features like an integrated relational
database, terabyte local process addressing, single level storage (unlimited
shared memory persistent object addressing), object based operating system,
dynamic logical partitioning, resource virtualization, 128 bit tagged address 
pointers and much more. As another interesting note is that in those dynamic
partitions you can run up to 31 separate Linux environments (Red Hat and United
Linux based distributions from SuSE, Turbolinux, and Conectiva), AIX 5L in the
next release, S/36 and (of course) one or more instances of the OS/400 where
each partition thinks it has its own machine.  Guess how many casinos in the US
run with AS/400s!