RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1470 -- MIDRANGE-L

What a load of cr*p!

Selected quotes:

>Griffin Macy, VP of enterprise system development for Waste 
>Management Inc., said any system more than 3 years old, including 
>Web applications, is considered a legacy system at his company. 

Three years old is "Legacy"?

>Kenneth Harvey, CIO of HSBC Bank, better known as Household 
>International, the consumer-lending firm, said his company still 
>relies on mainframe core systems but has unplugged its IBM AS/400 
>midrange computers because "no one is learning RPG," its programming 
>language. "We do 40% of our development in India," he added, 
>"and they won't do RPG." 

Does Kenneth really believe AS/400's only support RPG?  Not to mention that
when our company was outsourcing to India the programmers we used did
RPG....

>Bally spends $15 million a year on IT, with 80% of the budget going 
>to mainframe and legacy systems. "We've got to get to 60%" of the 
>budget for maintenance of legacy systems, said Gail Holmberg, CIO 
>of Bally Total Fitness. 

If you upgrade your iSeries to a current model is it still a "Legacy
System"?

>Martin Davis, CIO of Wachovia Corp., said his company spends $1.4 
>billion a year on IT, with 65% to 70% spent on legacy systems, 
>compared with 30% to 35% on new development. Integration of systems 
>is his biggest problem.

Does anyone believe that there is no new development on their legacy
systems?  And apparently Martin has no idea what the 'i' in iSeries stands
for.

I think that the number one issue we iSeries fans have got to face down is
the impression that the iSeries is a "good legacy box".   I rarely let an
opportunity go by to let management know that our iSeries has many unused
capabilities that we pay $$$ to run on other servers (LDAP, WebSphere,
Domino, Linux, NFS, SMTP, etc.)  In fact, just this morning our VP of IT
asked me to explore moving our Domino server from NT to the iSeries (after
the NT box blue screened again.)

Just my rant for the day...

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:25:32 -0400
from: MEovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: More anti-midrange propaganda


The Price Of Legacy
CIOs at the InformationWeek Fall Conference say their older
systems are still useful but often carry a high price tag.
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ect30EEEPF0V20B8rd0Ag

I'd like to know how much money this CIO is "saving" by getting rid of
their iSeries.

Mike E.
   
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