Re: State of the Midrange

The September 2000 SHOWCASE magazine has a one-liner on page 10 in the Who
What Where section which reads as follows.  "Unisys has received an order
valued at $1 million from the New York office of Mitsui & Co. to provide an
ES7000 that will handle core application workload previously supported by
AS/400 servers."  The reason for the switch is that Mitsui wants to run SAP
R/3.  For Unisys perspective of the AS/400 visit www.unisys.com and put
"AS/400" in their search engine.  Here is a link to a Unisys white paper
titled "Things to Consider Before Converting From Unisys A-Series to IBM"
http://www.unisys.com/marketplace/giga/227952-cb99.html ... a vapid and
toothless analysis.  Their best punch ?  No.  They run SAP.  Know thy
nemy.  -DaveK

----- Original Message -----
From: <booth@martinvt.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: State of the Midrange


> No, Joel, you weren't being too cute.  I read those stories too and their
> common thread seems to be a paragraph or side bar about the wonderful
> things coming in the next phase.
>
> The stories I never see are "Honey, can I come home?" from outfits that
> made the switch and then watched helplessly as the wheels came off.  I
> never see "We thought he AS/400 was expensive until we tried Brand X".  I
> never see "We were on budget and on time".
>
> In fact I never see any real news stories (like news reporters write),
> just fluff pieces from marketers and public relations departments.
>
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> http://www.MartinVT.com
> _______________________
>
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>
> Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 08/23/2000 12:54 PM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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>         To:     "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        RE: State of the Midrange
>
> Sorry Booth, maybe I was being too cute.  The trade magazine stories I've
> seen are always billed as success stories, but if you read the story, and
> you don't have to infer anything, you generally find that the shiny new
> thing doesn't work nearly as well as the ugly but serviceable thing it
> replaced.  In the last two or three years I haven't seen nearly as many of
> them.  They used to be a weekly feature in "PC Week."
>
> I guess the criterion for success in these cases is no one being fired.
> <g>
>
> BTW, I believe firmly that it's possible to write good GUI business
> software.  There's nothing inherently wonderful about green screen.  The
> problem is usually that people try to replace custom developed software
> designed to understand the idiosyncracies of a particular company with one
> size fits all software.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: booth@martinvt.com [mailto:booth@martinvt.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 5:46 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: State of the Midrange
> >
> >
> > Is what you say true?  I have looked for stories of success
> > with these
> > roll-outs and never see the stories.
> >
> > Probably the Oracle faithful can recite chapter and verse of
> > dozens of
> > great  and grand conversions, but I just never see the stories.  Yet
> > Oracle sells. Oracle sells over and over.  They're doing
> > something right.
> >
> >
> > _______________________
> > Booth Martin
> > Booth@MartinVT.com
> > http://www.MartinVT.com
> > _______________________
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