Re: Have you read this?

["OleBlighty" <oleblighty@xxxxxxxx>]

Jdedwards wrote....

> Oh yeah... I've got a comment... we bought another company and acquired
their
> interactive users.  When we exceeded the interactive "allowance" a
wonderful
> job/task/whatever called CFINT01 kicked in and basically took over the
CPU.
> I was told by IBM that it was like a "governor".  Not only did it insure
we
> would not be able to use more interactive CPU than we paid for... it made
> sure we couldn't get any work done at all.  We have since upgraded from an
> S30 to a 730... at the mercy of IBM who took us for a nice ride in the
> process.

Let me just see if I can get this right in my own mind.  You had a S30,
which presumably you bought to facilitate a certain number of interactive
users and transaction throughput.  Then you bought another company with a
bunch of interactive users.  Then you brought the new users on line before
knowing the affect on your machine.  Then it didn't work because you hadn't
paid enough for the CPU required to run the machine with the new users.
Then you got pissed off because IBM charged you to upgrade to a machine that
would do the job.

Definately sounds like your company's IT strategy is closely connected to
your company's business plan to me.  J.D.Edwards sounds like my kind of
firm...any jobs going.  I too know how to fuck up royally and blame it on
someone else.


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