Re: AS/400 Gasping For Air ??

[Andrew Borts<Andrew_Bytes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK I just want to point out Nina that Dean and I don't know each other - 
but we both have similar experiences....

>>Must have been a pretty _DARNED SIMPLE_ application.  The Access 
application
>>that I mentioned in the "Early Client Server on the AS/400" thread was 
quoted
>>at more than $175,000, and that was over five years ago!  Granted, the
>>aforementioned application was both unique and complex, but a total 
re-write
>>of even accounting functions for $2,000 is absolutely _LUDICROUS_.  Let 
me put
>>on my Karnac turban and try to predict your results:

>>1.  Your client's PC developer, if experienced at all, will have little
>>accounting experience and will falter in trying to replace the billing 
and A/R
>>functions.
>>2.  Your client's application provider, citing holes that their 
management
>>allowed into the "statement of work" (assuming there is one), will 
declare
>>_EVERYTHING_ (including existing functionality) to be outside the scope 
of the
>>project.
>>3.  Your client's management, in their efforts to deny the fact that they 
made
>>a mistake, will pour untold thousands of dollars into making this project
>>work, and will _STILL_ end up with an unworkable solution.
>>4.  You, yourself, will eventually be vilified by the client, who is 
seeking a
>>"scapegoat", for not adequately expressing your concerns over this 
project and
>>will end up either fixing the application on the /36 or porting it to the 
/400
>>and fixing it.

>>Just a guess, but I'd bet a large sum of money on 3 out of 4 being 
right...

Just to let you know Dean - I'm betting on 4!!
Andrew Borts
Systematic Control, Inc.
(888) 453-0766
AndrewB@Sysctl.com
www.sysctl.com

>>Dean Asmussen
>>Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
>>Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
>>>E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

>>"Eight percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen
        Where's the other 92%?


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