RE: Hypothetical question

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds like  a long multi year  project  and a Billon dollar  expense.

What is the expected return on that investment ?
Don't think I heard that mentioned?

At 03:13 PM 12/30/2003 -0600, jeff_carey@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Well, let's say this hypothetical company uses both World and OneWorld and
> is considering moving every instance to OneWorld and then migrating to Sun
> running Oracle.
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> Is your company considering replacing the iSeries database server in
> OneWorld implementations with a Sun-based database server?  Or are they
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> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
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> > Say your company had several instances of JDE globally, mostly running on
> > AS/400's.  Say further that during a global meeting it was stated that
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