RE: Hypothetical question

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

I'm not sure that you've given enough information about your hypothetical
situation.  Suppose, for instance, that you have a global company running
JDE World and OneWorld at their various locations.  Suppose that you have
many instances of World, all of which are required to run on an iSeries.
Suppose that you have a few instances of OneWorld, all using the Sun Solaris
hardware platform with an Oracle database server.  The goal of the company
is to upgrade all of their locations to the currently supported version of
OneWorld and to utilize a common hardware platform in support of those
upgrades.

In upgrading from World to OneWorld, your existing World platforms are
toast.  They just won't have the horsepower to support the same number of
users in a OneWorld configuration.  In this case, the question you're really
asking is "What is the most appropriate database server for multiple
instances of OneWorld?"  The answer would include hardware/software/support
costs, staffing levels, and all of those other things traditionally included
in that kind of analysis.  If the scenario I describe above is accurate, (or
close to accurate), then I don't think that it is necessarily a bad idea on
its face.  I have to put my iSeries bigotry to the side to say this, but if
your hypothetical company has successful experience running OneWorld on the
Sun platform and does not have such experience with the iSeries, it is
reasonable to consider the Sun platform.  You will throw out all of your
existing World platforms anyway.

There are legitimate reasons to go either way, and initial cost of the
platforms is a significant part of the executive decision-making process.  I
would not write off either direction as a bonehead mistake.

Is this close to your (hypothetical) situation?

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