Well it actually doesn't seem too retrograde, at least you are not falling back into the arms of Bill.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:08:44 +1300 Lance BLACKLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some information about that Chris - I work for MasterTrade - but not > in the IT area. > > Brief history - MasterTrade was is an Electrical and Plumbing wholesaler > (not just Plumbing as mentioned in the article) - we also have (retail) > bathroom showrooms. Originally formed by a merger of NEECO, PDL Sales and A > & T Burts - was owned by PDL - who recently were sold to Schneider > Electrical (France) - who in turn sold MasterTrade to the Crane Group > (Australia). Crane own the Mico companies in New Zealand as well as Corys > Electrical (wholesaler). So now they operate MasterTrade and Corys as 2 > brands one business and Micos as a separate brand separate business. > > MasterTrade have over the years (under Neil Helson's direction) developed a > very good in house sales and distribution (unix based) software - originally > running on windows PC's (on the counters) in an emulator - but more recently > the PC's have been running Linux as mentioned in the article - and the > nationwide and branch level PC networks are also Linux (Redhat). > > We also have a AS400 server in our Christchurch head office. > > Why the change now? - Crane are implementing JD Edwards throughout the > groups business - so that includes us, apparantly we will all be getting > Citrix terminals and as far as I can tell JDE runs from Sun Solaris servers. > That's as much as I know from brief discussions with one of our IT staff > here, who at this stage doesn't seem to know exactly what the change entails > yet either. > > Regards > > Lance Blackler > Heating Technical Advisor > MasterTrade Corys Ltd > > > > > > > >From: Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: This morning's Press > >Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:50:22 +1300 > > > >On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:08, you wrote: > > > heres a copy of the article, which I don't particularly like now that I > > > have read it. > > > > > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2289011a28,00.html > > > >Does anybody know why MasterTrade stopped using Linux, when according to > >the > >art. it was going well? > > > >-- > >Christopher Sawtell > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 >
