RE: Hypothetical question -- MIDRANGE-L

Andy if it came across as sarcasm then I apologize.  I am being serious. 
The decision is already made.   There is no point in discussing the
rightness and the wrongness of the decision, especially in a hypothetical
vacuum.   I can understand  the frustration and emotion Jeff feels but its
too late.  If he wants the decision changed then he must attack the problem
from the high ground.  Facts are no longer relevant.

On the other hand the case may be exactly as you describe, and he'd better
get with the program and not spend energy fighting a battle that will leave
him a marked man.   
 
As to whether it is a bonehead move... none of us, including Jeff can
determine that.  We were not part of the decision making process and we don
t know what the issues were.   The undeniable bonehead behavior here is that
the decision was announced without getting people on board.  That is always
a boneheaded way to implement major change. 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 01/01/04 05:50:30
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Hypothetical question
 
Booth,
 
I'm not sure how I received your posting here; I may need to adjust the
settings on my sarcasm filter. :)
 
I think in your post below you make the point for asking for more
information.  You state that you ". . . believe we can deduce that this
decision is not supported by a rational business decision, but rather is an
emotional decision disguised in smoke and mirrors to diffuse opposition."
The purpose of my request was to find out whether Jeff's company had
experience in running OneWorld on the Sun platform.  Judging from his
response to my post, that is the case.  They may actually have more
experience with that platform using OneWorld than they do with the iSeries.
So it may well be that this is a direction determined by something other
than smoke and mirrors.
 
I interpreted Jeff's initial question as trying to determine whether this
direction is a bonehead move.  I don't think it is.  Standardizing a global
company on a single software platform is a valid business decision.
OneWorld is a viable solution.  Sun/Oracle and iSeries/DB2 are both viable
choices for database serving.  Arguments about subfile processing have
little validity when discussing a database server in an n-tier client-server
packaged application.  It may well boil down to silly things like facts and
costs.
 
I'm an AS/400 bigot myself.  I've also been in enough competitive marketing
situations in the JD Edwards market to not want to discount the other
platforms that OneWorld supports.
 
Have a happy new year.
Regards,
Andy