Editing IBM AS/400 (section)

=== Legacy ===
Although announced in 1988, the AS/400 remains IBM's most recent major architectural shift that was developed wholly internally{{nosource|date=May 2024}}. After the departure of CEO [[John Akers]] in 1993, when IBM looked likely to be split up, [[Bill Gates]] commented that the only part of IBM that Microsoft would be interested in was the AS/400 division. (At the time, many of Microsoft's business and financial systems ran on the AS/400 platform, rumored as ending around 1999 with the introduction of [[Windows 2000]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Microsoft TechNet |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc/D8i3fBO1t1Q/uA7O-sncl-QJ |title=AS/400s extinct at Microsoft since 1999 |work=Google discussion group, Microsoft runs AS/400's in-house - Article? |access-date=2007-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/bb967337.aspx |title=Disparition des systèmes AS/400 chez Microsoft depuis mai 1999 | access-date=2013-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106083645/http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/bb967337.aspx |archive-date=2012-11-06 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://iseriespriest.blogspot.com/2006/03/microsoft-uses-iseries-to-run-its.html |title=Microsoft Uses the iSeries to Run its Business |work=Blogspot, Confessions of An iSeries Priest |date=5 March 2006 |access-date=2006-03-05}}</ref>)