RE: Hello World

[Hi Janet ...]

I am in the performance arena.  I would like to be a lot busier than I am.
I think that I should be.

No hands-on with V4R5 yet.  Install when the big surprises are taken care
of.

I would love to do some work on PASE.  I need a system to play with.  Please
see the comment about wanting to be busier than I am.

I am spending too much time playing on these mailing lists :)

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-consult400@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-consult400@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:02 PM
To: CONSULT400@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Hello World


Hello all,

  If there's a place to start a snowball from, Jenet's in the right
place!

  Over here in Michigan (not a flake of snow, heck it's over 50 now!)
the business is steady but not brisk. Most interest is in Web stuff for
sure. Our company has gone from 0 people on web projects as of 1/1/00 to
three at this time. We have assigned only one programmer to an RPG
contract during that period.

  As for upgrades (hard and soft) the hardware side is very confused by
the 8xx announcements and nobody is moving until they get that straight
in their minds.  Also holding back hardware upgrades are the
astronomical software upgrade prices being quoted today. Since the y2k
upgrade rush is over it appears the MAPICS, JDE, BPCS, etc software
houses are desparate for revenue.  One example is a BPCS customer who
just upgraded to a 720-2061 (70/240cpw) from a 500(43cpw) for "around
$75,000", and was quoted $1,300,000 for the BPCS updgrade!!!!! GADZOOKS!
That's so far off base it's just plain goofy. Mind you there is NOTHING
new in the software, it was copied from the 500 (already RISC), only a
key was required.  We've even had customers with USER BASED pricing on
their software told that they STILL needed to pay an upgrade charge when
changing models! (So what's the point of User Based pricing I then
ask??)

  Something has GOT to give on the software charges as these guys are
pricing themselves flat out of the market and taking the AS/400 with
them.  We've had several customers jump to NT for just that reason.
Haven't seen any go *NIX though.

  My .02 for now.

  - Larry

jkrueger@dhagroup.com wrote:
>
> >>I joined this list sometime ago and was wondering if I am alone
> here, because I do not receive a single mail.
>
> You are not alone.  It seems a lot of us want to listen in on discussions
> amongst consultants, but none of us have much to say...
>
> That in itself presents an interesting image, as many of us are not known
for
> being quiet...
>
> There are several hundred people signed up now, so perhaps it is time to
hone in
> on what we want to talk about...
>
> Here are some questions we could contemplate:
>   - Is business starting to pick up now after the Y2K hiatus for anything
other
> than web related consulting?
>   - Have any of you had direct hands on experience with V4R5, yet?  How
rapidly
> would you advise your clients to consider installing it?
>   - What about PASE?  It seem fully functional now with the V4R5
implementation;
> any thoughts on how/if to leverage it?
>   - Are consultants truly so bashful that they can't start threads of
> discussion?
>   - IBM claimed they were going to kick off a new X-Treme ad campaign for
the
> 400, has anyone seen signs of it yet?
>
> Janet Krueger, in Minnesota, trying to start a snowball rolling...

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