RE: Migrating from AS/400 to MicroFocus

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: rob@dekko.com
>
> Dale, when I read Joe's response I kind of blew it off as a worthless
> rant.  While Brad's response was a bit sharp it was quite to the point.

Hey, read it how you want.  I'm not apologizing for anything.  If I were
moving a MicroFocus application TO the AS/400, I'd have already put in place
all the steps and procedures I outlined.  Why?  Because I'm used to doing
real business application deployment.

Which part of my stuff was a rant?  I asked simple, Deployment 101 types of
questions.  Things that anyone on a implementation project should have
asked:

1. Who is our vendor support contact?
2. How long will the migration take?
3. What are the test plans?
4. How long will we run parallel?
5. What are the cutover deliverables?

Horrors!  I pointed out things that Mr. McDaniel should have considered
before this migration started!  And I wasn't warm and fuzzy about it!  Oh
no!  I wasn't programmatically correct!

By not pointing these things out, it's tacit agreement that it's okay to be
"starting a migration project" without having all these things in place.
What do you think this guy's chances are without these things?

This idea of "migrating off of the AS/400" has a lot more to it than meets
the eye, and I pointed that out.  Including the fact that there ARE support
groups like this for the AS/400, while I'm not sure there are the same for
MFCOBOL.

So I didn't coat things in saccharine.  Oh well.  At least I introduced a
list of things he should consider during his project.  But Rob, you and
Michael once again spend bandwidth SOLELY to lambaste my lack of kindness
and gentleness.  Even going so far as to say Brad was "quite to the point"
calling me a jerk.  Gz, Rob, tell the people what you REALLY think about me.

Anyway, hope it's worth your time.  Gotta run.

Joe

P.S. I'm not stressing on this, Rob.  I just think misinformed things need
to be pointed out.  I didn't make a single reference to Brad being in any
way deficient or unintelligent or a jerk.  Just that his project plan was
lacking.  If that's enough to get flamed, then I think perhaps it's not
***ME*** who's stressed <smile>.