RE: iSeries vs. Unix vs. SQL Server vs. Oracle

It wasn't just on, it was glowing green with jealousy.  But this guy works
for a very large company, and there's no way they're ripping out all of
their systems to go iSeries.

At least not until someone can convince their CI/CF/CEO that the iSeries is
"cool."  Lucky for me, we just care about profit.

Mike E.




                                                                                
                                                     
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So, did the light bulb go on, or was the message lost? I'm sure that
you've seen my posts about a client who started an Oracle project 3.5
years ago because the 30 (now 40) something CFO wanted GUI. Their new DBA
(the 3rd in 3.5 years) told me yesterday that he thinks they'll be lucky
to have everything ready by January 1, 2005. In the meantime, the 400
keeps chugging along. We did a proof of concept of the newlook product for
the accounting department troops, and they liked it, but they fear that in
order to save face, upper management will continue forward with Oracle.

IBM really missed the boat here. I guess a $600 million per year
construction company isn't big enough to go after.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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