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On Fri, 28 December 2001, Chuck Lewis wrote: > jt wrote: > > <There are plenty of tools that allow you to re-engineer your applications, >to a > client/server mode that bypasses the interactive "tax". Few, however, can > afford the massive expense of re-engineering their apps. That's why many >refer > to iSeries customers as "captive".> > > jt, no offense but my understanding of the term "captive" in regards to the > AS/400 has always been that it would be so hard to move off of the AS/400 to > something else because of the integrated data base, etc. In the Unix world it >is > pretty easy to hop from Sun to HP... I did a two-week "facilities management" stint for a site a few years back. The company had been purchased a couple years earlier by a larger company and their S/38 installation was being converted to run on the parent company's system. Original estimate for conversion was approx 6 months. When I was there, the project had been going for 18 months and the latest estimate to completion was "6 months". (I know projects often go that way, but it wasn't like requirements kept changing or any normal scope-creep was happening.) Seems they were having trouble giving similar functionality what with those pesky subfiles, external descriptions, etc. No one in the parent organization had any idea in the beginning of how much functionality was integrated in the S/38 and has been simply taken for granted by us. Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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