× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.


  1.  Home
  2. MIDRANGE-L
  3. April 2005

RE: Left AS/400 and Returned

Hi Tom

I've seen a few of these myself. IBM's big problem (at least in IMHO) is that since they no longer clearly differentiate along platform lines they are always trapped by the desire to be not to negative about the proposed solution so as not to preclude them selves from the consulting solution. My feeling is that's why they are never as chest-beating about these things as the other vendors - it might lose them some services revenue.

There have been at least three occasions where I feel they could have convinced a customer to go iSeries but were so concerned with staying in the race for pSeries/db2 against solaris/oracle that they botched the entire sale. Again IMHO only.

My experience is that a facilities management role is a great way to see how poor the other operating systems and databases really are in terms of requiring on-going intervention. I saw a lot of Oracle/Sun work and db2/pSeries ( I won't even bother with the SQL Server stuff) and couldn't believe (and still can't) what they took for granted as required to manage the database. I still give some of them cr*p about having to manage extents manually.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 09:30 p.m. 30/04/2005, you wrote:
It seems to me that IBM could get a lot of mileage out of sites/stories such as the one below. IBM should work out a 'Showcase' deal with them. In exchange for some kind of discount or whatever, the customer/site would agree to act as a reference.

I did a temporary facilities management deal for a company quite a few years ago. They'd been bought and the parent company was hard at work on an 18-month project to convert their S/38 apps over to the parent's Digital system of some sort. When I got there, the project was somewhere around the 2-year mark and estimate to completion was still 18 months.

The _big_ hangup at the time was all the subfiles -- there was nothing like them on the parent company side, possibly still isn't. They seem old to us, but they're sure handy in an interactive app. We can take such things almost for granted.

Tom Liotta


As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...
Follow-Ups:
Replies:
Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.