RE: Left AS/400 and Returned

Don in DC said:

"We've got a local company that's become a bit of a laughing stock
around
here...  It's estimated that they've spent well over 55 MILLION to goto
a
oracle system on HPUX and get off the 400...  Last update I heard they
finally made it...but that's a serious chunk of change..."

The saying "a fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind,
however, it appears the trend from the iSeries to another "perceived"
better platform is inevitable regardless how foolish it might be.   And,
besides IBM, the iSeries community, as a whole, is not helping matters
by touting legacy application development methodologies, languages, file
structures, presentation layers, etc., in somewhat of a religious way
and therefore seen as legacy and inflexible to the new ways and
therefore not appealing to management wanting to go to something else.  


My advice to the iSeries community is change your application
development methodology and the way you present the iSeries to compete
with the Unix flavors, the Oracles, the SQLServers, or be ready to go
the way of the "rust belt".     

"Resistance is futile... you will be assimilated" also comes to mind.

Take care,

Dave