RE: Hypothetical question -- MIDRANGE-L

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.

Jeff Carey

"Andy

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12/30/2003 02:34 PM

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Discussion"

Jeff,

Is your company considering replacing the iSeries database server in
OneWorld implementations with a Sun-based database server?  Or are they
considering an entirely new ERP package?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> 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
the
> direction of the company was to move from the AS/400 and iSeries to Sun
> Solaris.
>
> What are some key reasons that this would be a bad idea?
>
>
> Jeff Carey


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