Re: Sterling Gentrans gone? NOT.

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marty,

Thank you for clarifying that!
Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@stercomm.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:52 AM
Subject: RE: Sterling Gentrans gone? NOT.


> Patrick,
>
> Sterling Commerce did conduct a reorganization last week which included
some
> valuable members of the AS/400 development team. However, it was not the
> entire team and it did not reduce the L1 and L2 support staff. There are
no
> plans to drop the GENTRAN:Server for AS/400 product. In fact, no current
> AS/400 development projects were eliminated.
>
> Your supposition about AS/400 users being migrated to the UNIX product is
> not correct. There are many forces in play at any large company, and while
> there are some decision makers who wish that could happen, there are
others
> who acknowledge that it will not.
>
> Marty Urbanek
> Sterling Commerce
>
> --------- original message --------
>
> From: "Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@patownsend.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Subject: Sterling Gentrans gone?
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:22:07 -0700
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> I heard today from a consultant that Sterling laid off their AS/400 EDI
> staff and are leaving the AS/400 platform. Apparently they want AS/400
uses
> to migrate to their UNIX product. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> TIA,
> Patrick
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