Re: Planning for an iSeries future

How about bringing her and/or the CIO to a COMMON conference? There's one in
September in Orlando. There's a special "track" for IT executives. They can
get up close & personal with IBM.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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708-923-7354 Home
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 4:44 PM
Subject: RE: Planning for an iSeries future


> I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful discussion on this topic.
>
> I have decided that a 3 year hiatus from a hardware upgrade probably won't
> be as bad as I originally alluded too.
>
> I guess one of the issues I need to address with management though is the
> adoption of an iSeries platform philosophy...
>
> We have one for the desktop side of the IT house... We regularly upgrade
our
> hardware based on a schedule - x number of years for displays, x number
for
> desktop PC's, x number for laptops etc... We also upgrade the desktop OS
> "every other" release... Example, we went from Win95 to Win2000 skipping
> Win98 and plan on skipping Win2003 ... You see... It is a philosophy of
> keeping current in small steps and spreading the cost of this over time.
>
> I'm trying to suggest that we do the same with our AS/400 - ISeries
> investment too.
>
> The current feedback I'm getting from my manager is "it is different" and
> she hasn't been able to quite explain why. Of course her background has
> always been the desktop arena and she just recently inherited the AS/400
> side of the floor after our last manager retired. I've strongly suggested
> that she take some time to learn more about the iSeries but she hasn't
> allocated any time yet.
>
> If I could convince her and the CIO that it is in our companies best
> interest to have an iSeries upgrade philosophy then most of my current
> issues would probably melt away.  Of course as you have probably already
> guessed, the philosophy of "wait and see" is not one I want to accept
easily
> <smile>.
>
> Kenneth
>
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