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  • Subject: RE: iSeries Misconceptions
  • From: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:14:18 -0400
  • Importance: Normal

I agree.  Nearly all of my customers have no programmers and no operations 
staff.  They usually have one person to change the tape
every day.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:36 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: iSeries Misconceptions
>
>
> Leif,
>
> >Anyway your comparison fails because almost every AS/400 show has at least
> >one resident programmer.
>
> I don't think that is necessarily true.  I've been working on the S/3x line
> since the 70's, and *none* of the installations I worked at ever had a 
>resident
> programmer -- save one who had a part-time person for awhile but went back to 
>no
> resident programmer.
>
> In fact, most of the shops I've worked with don't even have a resident *system
> operator*.  When you installed the system, you just taught the existing staff
> how to use it.
>
> Of course, I also have spent my whole career in rural areas where businesses
> tend to be smaller.  But the reliability and ease-of-use of the S/36 and 
>AS/400
> is what lets you drop in a system and let them run without a schooled staff.
>
> I think you are underestimating how many installations run vendor software 
>only,
> and if/when they need modifications, just hire the vendor to do it, or a local
> contract programmer.  Does this make the system legacy because the software 
>was
> pre-written?  Even if they are a new installation, but a package fit their
> needs?
>
> What if they installed PC's and Great Plains Software instead?  It it any more
> or less "legacy"?
>
> On a similar vein, it is also common to use the 400 as field office machine
> where in essence "corporate" is the software vendor, but potentially thousands
> of offices are run without on-site technical staff.
>
> Doug

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