Re: CISC upgrades

boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> Do you know specifics?  Quantifiable stuff?  Decision points made and
> changed? from and too info?  Why did they decide to change to non-AS/400
> in the first place?  Why did they come back to the AS/400?  Did they have
> trainwrecks?  Were jobs lost?  Did heads roll?  When they came back to the
> AS/400 was the recovery fast and smooth?  A few  tales would be
> interesting to read; to me at least.

>    at 12:51 PM, Bob Angell <aimsllc@ibm.net> said:

> > (I have actually seen some companies remove and then
> >reacquire the AS/400 because the new stuff could not remain reliable, go
> >figure).

There are several, but if I tell you, I'll have to kill you! <VBG>

Most of the companies I will not mention due to the relationship
that I have with them, but here is one in particular that I can
relate.  Company A decided to get rid of their AS/400s (2) and other
larger hardware and also eliminated a Lan Server network in favor
of the software coming out of Redmond.  One thing led to another
and they first found out that NT did not scale well, and the 
Powerbuilder they were using for their in house database strategy
fell flat on their face, etc.  ... they brought back in a couple
of AS/400s and are using Warp Server, db2 and whatever else they
decided.

They went to non-AS/400 because they did not know how to interface
to Powerbuilder/Oracle and thought that was what they wanted to do ...
(they were using db2 and something else for their DB needs) ... it
did not work and they retreated to a "solid" decision base.  I believe
a couple of jobs were terminated and the process to bring them back
into the fold was excruciatingly painful.

Anyway, can't really elaborate too much more and I have probably
said too much as it is.

-Bob-
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