RE: State of the Midrange

No, Joel, you weren't being too cute.  I read those stories too and their 
common thread seems to be a paragraph or side bar about the wonderful 
things coming in the next phase. 

The stories I never see are "Honey, can I come home?" from outfits that 
made the switch and then watched helplessly as the wheels came off.  I 
never see "We thought he AS/400 was expensive until we tried Brand X".  I 
never see "We were on budget and on time".

In fact I never see any real news stories (like news reporters write), 
just fluff pieces from marketers and public relations departments.

_______________________
Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
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08/23/2000 12:54 PM
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Sorry Booth, maybe I was being too cute.  The trade magazine stories I've
seen are always billed as success stories, but if you read the story, and
you don't have to infer anything, you generally find that the shiny new
thing doesn't work nearly as well as the ugly but serviceable thing it
replaced.  In the last two or three years I haven't seen nearly as many of
them.  They used to be a weekly feature in "PC Week." 

I guess the criterion for success in these cases is no one being fired. 
<g>

BTW, I believe firmly that it's possible to write good GUI business
software.  There's nothing inherently wonderful about green screen.  The
problem is usually that people try to replace custom developed software
designed to understand the idiosyncracies of a particular company with one
size fits all software.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: booth@martinvt.com [mailto:booth@martinvt.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 5:46 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: State of the Midrange
> 
> 
> Is what you say true?  I have looked for stories of success 
> with these 
> roll-outs and never see the stories. 
> 
> Probably the Oracle faithful can recite chapter and verse of 
> dozens of 
> great  and grand conversions, but I just never see the stories.  Yet 
> Oracle sells. Oracle sells over and over.  They're doing 
> something right.
> 
> 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> http://www.MartinVT.com
> _______________________
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