RE: Left AS/400 and Returned

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Did they also fire the CIO?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Left AS/400 and Returned
> From: R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, April 29, 2005 10:30 am
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I worked for a company that, in 1994, decided that the three AS400's
> (one 300GB+ production machine, one 50GB development machine, one
> sandbox machine, a 20S IIRC, and 8+ million lines of custom code in RPG,
> COBOL and PL/I) decided that it was time to replace everything in a
> "Business Re-Engineering" project.
> 
> To what? AIX and Informix. 
> 
> I recommended upgrading the boxes to RISC, installing and using DataProp
> and deploying the data warehouse from another 400. They said no. There
> were committed to coming off the 400 platform.
> 
> That was it for me. I went back to consulting.
> 
> For three years they tried just to get a basic data warehouse running
> that was accurate and could be updated from the 80,000+ active contracts
> maintained on the 400s in less than 3 days.
> 
> Never happened.
> 
> 3 years, 15+ MILLION dollars later... what did they do? They fired the
> contract firm that had convinced them to do this in the first place.
> They upgraded all their 400s. They installed Data Propagator. They built
> the warehouse on a 400.
> 
> Still up today.
> 
> By the way, out of 24 or so, highly skilled, multi-language, VERY loyal,
> in-house trained programmers, all but one or two have left. So the
> company lost a LOT more than $15 million.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:58, Frances Denoncourt wrote:
> > 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
> > Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> > Pinal County Treasurer's Office
> > Florence, AZ 85232
> > (520) 866-6404
> > 
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