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More than you can count Shannon, more than you can count.

I've watched more than one company pour tens of millions of dollars into
project after project that were supposed to replace home-grown and/or store
bought iseries solutions that maybe could be termed 'unwieldy' due to
legacy design flaws, but ran the company's business day after day, and have
yet to be adequately replaced.

each time, the new system would be piloted, the users would point out
serious deficiencies, middle management would find their jobs nearly
impossible to perform, and they would throw the whole thing on the scrap
heap, only to have new executive try the whole thing over again.
meanwhile, the iseries just kept chugging along.

Many years ago, I consulted for a company in the food manufacturing and
distribution industry.  They had several niche products that they did very
well, and were always very profitable.

The company was bought by a huge food conglomerate (best foods), right
away, the suits came in to assess the company's IT infrastructure.  they
had a 400, running in s/36 mode.  a few PCs networked together, and that
was it.

Sales over $100m a year, and their IT budget was less than half a million a
year... you can guess what happened next....

and they just never learn, do they?

rick

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Wow!  There's a whole host of lessons to be learned from this tale!

I wonder how many other software projects took such a downward, wayward
spiral as this?

Thanks Joe. Very interesting.

Shannon O'Donnell





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