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I am aware that E1 is not written in RPG, but can still run on the i. The beauty of that is that we could maintain some of our custom integrations with very little modification if we do ever migrate.
(would love to migrate, but the cost seems prohibitive for us. Has anyone actually performed this migration for little to no cash outlay?)
We migrated from BPCS directly over to E1, but if would be really hard to believe anyone could do a World-->E1 upgrade for no cash outlay. What kills a traditional iSeries shop is that you're used to being able to run everything on one system. With E1, there are piles of interacting software bits. The deployment server has to be a Windows box. The development machines (the ones you do modifications to versions, program development, manage packages, etc.) are normally Windows boxes. The web servers can be either Web Logic or Websphere, and Websphere can run on your i. Oracle is the only database on the development machines, but it can support MS SQL, DB2, MySQL or Oracle on the Enterprise Server.
The person who normally builds your deployment packages and sets up the software is a CNC (Configurator Network Computing) specialist. You cannot live without these guys. They have to know web servers, databases, support C++ development, manage a host of configuration settings and be overall system architects. You can learn it, but it is a job where, if you're only supporting one company, you're actively losing skills. In my humble view, you need someone who is doing it full time, supporting the multiple operating systems/web servers/databases, java components so they are flexible enough to manage the product.
We died when we tried to do it ourselves. And if you do hire a CNC full time, they will have a lot of free time on a stable, smaller system (the poor guys die when there are lots of packages and rollouts).
E1 is a bear. We are installing 9.2 now, and it takes a fully qualified CNC about a month to get the software up and running with all the pieces speaking to each other. Our former I/T director couldn't believe that, but it held true in our original 2009 implementation, and upgrade in 2012 and another right now.
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