Re: Good News & Bad News Well then here is some good news as well

We have recently added an iSeries to our IT shop, which initially will only 
handle reports, etc. but the long term goal is to cut down the number of 
windows servers, even eventually eliminate the p Series and replace it with 
an i.

Unfortunately we cannot accomplish it over night, but we are working on a 
five year plan to make the necessary conversions.....


On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:52:22 -0500, rob wrote
> LOVE THAT VENDOR!!!!
> I'd love to see all vendors terminate support for such obsolete 
> versions of OS/400.  Then maybe they'd finally advance their 
> software past code written in 1982.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> On the good news side, you'll remember that I've talked in the past 
> about a company that's 5 years and $10 million into a project to go 
> to Oracle. Tomorrow, I fire up their brand new 520. It seems that 
> their software vendor has terminated support for V5R1 and lower 
> customers. I will continue to lobby them to forget the Oracle stuff.
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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> Hi List,
> 
> Have some good news and some bad news relative to the status of the 
> iSeries
> in the market place.
> 
> Good News:
> 
> Have a chemical company client who's Headquarters MBA's decided to change
> over to Ross Software on a Windows environment but they also said 
> they would keep their V5.2 820 running with MARCAM software until 
> the Ross Conversion was done. That was some nine months ago and they 
> now admit that Ross will never be able to do what MARCAM can but 
> they will keep trying. Money down the drain with Ross and 3 cheers 
> for the hard working iSeries soldiers who are currently converting 
> over to a more current version of MARCAM. You younger folks probable 
> know MARCAM as AVANTIS.
> 
> Bad News:
> 
> A large insurance company based in Connecticut has decided to not renew
> their iSeries contract. Instead they are switching to browser 
> oriented software using their Z series machine as the database 
> engine. That's not a total loss but it means lost jobs in the 
> Atlanta area because they will be moving all of the IT operations to 
> Connecticut.
> 
> The current iSeries software was COBOL oriented and very difficult to
> maintain in the relatively dynamic world of automobile insurance. It 
> just really need a major redo but not a trash can destination.
> 
> Jack Derham
> 
> Direct Systems, Inc.
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