Re: Platform test cases.

William,

There is a manufacturing company in the Tulsa area that was purchased.  The
parent company used a Win NT platform and wanted this company to convert.
They had a very stable and customized application running on the AS/400.  We
were contacted about assisting in the conversion.  My understanding is that
once the users got to see the "better" application and how it would affect
their work processes they complained loud enough to squash the conversion
project.  (This is the one job I was glad to lose!)

What helped them stay with the AS/400 was 1) its stability, 2) the
application's stability, and 3) the applications customization to their
business processes.  Depending on your customer's needs and how well their
current software solution meets them, this may or may not be applicable.

Good luck!
Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "William A Pack" <tonypack@bellsouth.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:44 PM
Subject: Platform test cases.


> Help!,
> I have a small customer that is running a mixture of MAPICS and custom
code
> on a 9406-600.  They are looking for replacement software and will
probably
> look to move off of the AS/400 to a Windoze platform.  I feel that this is
a
> mistake, since they do not have a programming staff and have not put any
> changes in on thier software for 3+ years.  I have a few test cases that I
> can quote, but I would like to ask this forum if they have any similar
cases
> where the customer moved off of the AS/400 to Windoze and was sorry.  I
know
> that this is a biased request, but in this case, the bset value is to fix
> what you have got instead of trading the current set of problems for a set
> of new, but unknown problems.
> TIA,
> Tony Pack
> tonypack@bellsouth.net
>
>
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