Re: Left AS/400 and Returned

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I've had one customer (cannot name) move a major purchasing app to
Oracle. It was a crash & burn, over & over, for 4 months before users
demanded we bring it back to the AS400.
I think the company spent $250k in software alone, a total of 7 months of
wasted labor, and probably lost a few million for the purchasing problems.
After back on the 400, we spent a month giving the users the additional
functions they had seen in the other app. Ours didn't crash..
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frances Denoncourt" <Frances.Denoncourt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Left AS/400 and Returned


> Have any of you moved all of your apps AND data off the AS/400 on to an
> SQL server and then moved back to the AS/400 (at least for data) or
> really wished you could?
>
> Looks like we are not only moving the apps to the dotnet world but also
> our data.
>
> Should I be scared silly??
> Any horror stories?
>
> Thanks - I think.
>
> Fran Denoncourt
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