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  3. April 2005

Re: The IBM iSeries word from FOSE...

Bill Boyd wrote:
Subject: RE: The IBM iSeries word from FOSE...
I was just told in a meeting last week that we have to move off of the
AS/400 and to something cheaper and that will support Oracle starting next
year.


Bill -

Isn't this an oxymoron?  NOBODY switches to Oracle for cost savings.

From my experience, costs will only INCREASE if you move to an Oracle
platform, particularly since you'll soon need a six-figure DBA and other types of infrastructure support that wasn't necessary on the iSeries. My client is currently in the middle of a conversion from JDE to Oracle 11i, and I can tell you first-hand that this is quite true.

And, to boot, TWICE in the last month our PRODUCTION Oracle instance has been taken down for a FULL DAY because of Oracle patches that were applied to the system (that's TWO entire days of lost production for a multinational company).

We're still recovering from the one that happened last week!

<lol>

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

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