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Nick Rout wrote:
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 LtdFrom: 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.htmlDoes 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
