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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Rick Mason <rmason62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The same thing happened 8 years ago when a worked at a hospital,
the vendor presented a lot of "Pretty" screens but when things were
converted off of the AS400....they had more server related issues than ever
before......they realized maybe they should have given it a touch more
thought.

Unfortunately, it needs more than just thought. People, even very
smart, rational people, may simply not have accurate information, and
when you don't have accurate information, no amount of thinking can
fix that. (Actually, more thinking can make things worse.)

Perhaps even more unfortunately, people tend not to fully absorb
information that is presented as words. Reading something or being
told something is usually not enough. They have to be *shown*. (Even
that is sometimes not enough, but if you don't have something to show
people, it's *definitely* not enough.)

What I mean is, the only chance the hospital had was to have the right
people see actual software that was both pretty AND running on an i.
(Hmm... do I have the chronology right? If it was 8 years ago, maybe
it was still iSeries?) Maybe your current place of work still has a
chance. You have pretty good hardware already (we just moved up to a
very low-tier POWER7 and it feels like a fire-breathing beast to us),
and there are definitely more "pretty" choices for i now than 8 years
ago. Good luck!

John Y.

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