Re: iSeries to another platform and back -- MIDRANGE-L

If managers and decision makers are swayed by video, check out some of the
following:
(and i wish ibm would put back some of the promo material it has removed
from iNation)
Check out iNation pages, white papers and videos.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/newsfeatures/readingroom/interviews.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/newsfeatures/thecase/index.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/newsfeatures/readingroom/case_studies.html
( go into "iSeries case study library", the bottom of page by industry (and
this is all eServers, but many iSeries)
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/icandoit/  and run the
"i can do it" video (upper right - view online)
One of the best is free at Common or small charge for cd's from IBM.
IBM "it exists..." video. (network managers luv this..
also another called "Does it have to be this hard... What if?" from a
business partner

jim
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Subject: RE: iSeries to another platform and back


> Not really. It's more a case of management by airline magazine, and
> management by watching the Microsoft commercials. Gotta have Windows, you
> know? I told her to look into the GUI tools, etc.
>
> I also told her about my client that is 3.5 years into a conversion to
> Oracle with 1.5 years to go. This is a construction company whose owner
> got convinced he needed a graphical system. Never mind the fact that
> Oracle doesn't sell construction cost accounting software. Oracle gave him
> the names of a couple of consulting firms that would assist him in
> jerry-rigging the system to add job cost accounting (keep in mind that
> project managers manage by cost code, not G/L number).
>
> Pretty sad situation.
>
>
> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
> Samuel L. Clemens  (Mark Twain)
>
>
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>
> "Jamie Coles" <jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Can she provide us or the BP provide us with the reasons that are given
> to move to a different platform and what that platform offers in
> addition to the iSeries.
>
> That could give more ammunition rather than say Company X moved from
> iSeries to Platform XXX and had a disaster when they can turn round and
> say we're not getting platform XXX.
>
> Are they simply following the BP - and why? Are there not other BP's
> they can get?
>
> Jamie
>
>
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> To the list:
>
> At our local user group meeting last night, I sat next to a lady who is
> with a school district in suburban Chicago. She is being pressured by
> people (who think they know systems) into abandoning the 400 platform.
> Their BP is also hinting at abandoning the platform. Her question is
> this:
> Does anyone have any horror stories (that they'd be allowed to share) of
>
> organizations that have gone off on another platform, and then come back
>
> to the 400. I told her the Microsoft story, and she thought it was
> hilarious.
>
> Any help you can provide would be well received.
>
>
> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
> Samuel L. Clemens  (Mark Twain)
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