AS/400=>UNIX Migration (was Re: 4230 Printer Problem...)

Bruce,

In a message dated 1/5/99 4:42:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
crashshw@ix.netcom.com writes:

<<snip>>
> BTW, you noted you came from a Unix box; I'm curious to know what kind of
>  Unix, Unix box, and application. The reason is my company is merging with
>  another which is Unix dominated. The current mentality is replacing our
CISC
>  AS400 with a Unix-NT only environment with 6-9 months (rather than
upgrading
>  to RISC AS400). They're planning on rewriting our apps (service order
>  dispatching with billing/invoicing/client info backends) in C++. We have
>  about 40 GB of data and some 3/4 million lines of code (in RPG). In
>  addition, we also have JDEdwards running; how does that compare to your
>  reverse situation?

Hope they have a big empty UNIX box sitting around waiting for someone to use
it, ERP software that can replicate the functionality of your JDE, a large
training staff, the money to replace any twinax you may still be running, and
30+ developers that don't have anything better to do for the next 6-9 months.
Oh wait, Christmas is _OVER_ ;-)...

Good Luck!

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

"If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect." -- Ted Turner (gee, not
Bill Gates?)
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