RE: California Software/Infinite Corporation

Sadly, eventually removing the IBM i from the computing mix.

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:03 AM
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Subject: Re: California Software/Infinite Corporation

It's good to hear some of the harm organizations have suffered after migrating to Windows and the likes of Oracle. Virtually every migration story I have ever heard failed to meet expectations, and most led to large cost overruns and recurring server outages. It appears that migrations involving a conversion of RPG and CL code bases were the most prone to failure. Ask any company that has used California software, whether they remained with the converted code, or whether the disastrous results eventually forced them into a rewrite from scratch.

Gary, what do you mean by alternative to upgrading? Is the concern with an upgrade to IBM i on Power 8? Or a concern about modernizing legacy applications, continuing to use RPG and native interfaces?



On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Monnier, Gary <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi.

I've been directed to look at moving some applications off our IBM i
(i5
@V5R4) as an alternative to upgrading. One company I'm to look at is
named California Software but is also known as Infinite Corporation.
Their website rang a bell when I saw BABY36 and BABY i there. They,
essentially, convert displays from DDS to GUI format and have their
own language compilers. Everything that is converted runs on Windows
or Linux so DB2 is also translated to SQL Server or Oracle.

I haven't heard much about them over the years - pro or con. Anyone
have any comments on their products - pro or con? Contact me
privately if you wish.

Thanks,

Gary Monnier

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