That's what we thought also. In the end, the mainframers and IBM Global
Services won out. There's no vaccine.........
Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:18 AM
To: Open discussion among iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Jack booted thugs!
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were converting to AS/400 hardware.
Paul Nelson wrote:
BZZZZZT.
IBM was not involved in our side of the project.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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-----Original Message-----
From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:00 AM
To: Open discussion among iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Jack booted thugs!
Or, as IBM likes to think of it, "We made $105 million on that parley.
Pretty nice, eh?"
Paul Nelson wrote:
They're still a mainframe shop. They spent $70 million more than they
needed
to.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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-----Original Message-----
From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:21 AM
To: Open discussion among iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Jack booted thugs!
So, Paul, what is the rest of the story? What happened next?
Paul Nelson wrote:
Yes, in their regional offices around the world. Unbeknownst to the
group
that was retrofitting the international software to be used in the
corporate
offices, the mainframers, in conjunction with IBM Global Services,
funded
a
project to have IGS retrofit the mainframe code to make it Y2K
compliant.
IGS brought over 120 Indians and put them into an apartment building
wired
to the McDonald's HQ. Nobody ever saw them. The women in that group also
had
to cook and clean for the men. Their food was delivered from markets in
the
Indian neighborhoods of Chicago.
At the end of the 2 year project, 6 weeks before the rollout of the
System
i
stuff, the CIO announced that the mainframe software had been
retrofitted
and would be kept. Everybody on the System i project was thanked and
sent
home.
I called my broker and told him to get rid of my shares in McDonalds. We
did
the project for $35 million. IBM GS was paid $70 million. The CIO was
rewarded with a new BMW because he had come in $15 million under his
original budget! Unbelievable.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 8:54 AM
To: 'Open discussion among iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Jack booted thugs!
No doubt. So are they still running System i's ?
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpf0000-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:33 AM
To: 'Open discussion among iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Jack booted thugs!
Yup. They were replacing their mainframes with System i's. My job was to
train the main framers who were going to be retained. Those who were to
be
retained would be the ones who did the best on the System i's. Those
guys
did not like seeing me come to work every day.
Paul
