Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade

[Jason Greenwood]

I hope their network falls over then...serves em right, Citrix is now 
owned by MS right???? =)

Cheers

J

Lance BLACKLER wrote:

Well Jason is probably more correct - the reality is that all of the 
desktop PC's at head office are windows machines - I personally have a 
win 2000 machine - as are the branch managers PC's - only the branch 
counter machines and a couple of other's that I have seen in the 
branches run Linux (that is still 300 or so units though).

I understand that the HO PC's will be replaced with Citrix terminals 
that display a win 2000 desktop and run the usual office MS apps from 
the central server.  Most of the people that travel a lot have a 
laptop that they plug into a CRT display and keyboard etc in their 
office - don't know what will happen to these - they will presumably 
get to keep them - also running windows of course.

Lance B






From: Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:33:08 +1300
Unless they are switching to desktop PC's running you know what...but 
the citrix terminals seem to allude that this won't happen....

Cheers

J

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 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


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