RE: Price Increases !!!!! Abandonment rate

Despite our european business being run from JBA / AS400 with absolutely no
problems, a low TCO, a small but highly skilled team of IT staff covering
all aspects of the business, the (US based) VP has decided that "in the
interests of global standards" to move to Oracle/NT over the next 3-5 years.

So i expect in five years to be running a ERP suite that costs significantly
more, on a platform thats totally unreliable and bugridden, with a team ten
times the size just trying to keep it running.

AS/400's weren't even considered as a platform.


Regards,
Stuart
                                     
Stuart Allen
European Systems Analyst
Fellowes

mailto:sallen@fellowes.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Mangham [SMTP:randym69@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:08 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Price Increases !!!!! Abandonment rate
> 
        <snip>
> Nearly every local company I'm aware of that has installed a
> major ERP system in the last 5 years has moved off the AS/400 to Unix.
> 
> Randy Mangham
> Pacific Crest Consulting
> San Diego, CA
> 
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