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Does anyone know of any real success stories of companies moving away from
the as400 environment to an MS environment,
and getting more bang for the buck?

Not looking to bash MS or IBM here, just an honest question, whether from a
big shop or a small one, big project or a small one!


On 16/02/06, Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> IMHO, this is an organization being fronted by M$ to migrate AS/400
> customers to M$.
>
> What they are doing might be legal (I am not a lawyer), but might be
> irresponsible, or without integrity, or just good marketing for the Evil
> Empire.  They might disagree with me, and I welcome their comment in
> public
> .
>
> I am recently seeing some low end customers squandering money on trying to
> move to M$, with few succeeding.  Those that do succeed seem to do it a
> greater expense, but won't admit the fault.  (My bottom line here is that
> aggregated among customers [mostly low end - not my speciality], more
> money
> is spend with less reward.  Admittedly, some do hit a home run, but  don't
> but lottery tickets; I invest.)
>
> However, my current thought is that they are doing nothing good for our
> platform, the best in the world!
>
> On the other hand, IBM does not have sufficient focus on the low end, as
> the server capabilities increase, trying to woo us from our wife's (of
> many
> years) to mistresses (younger and possibler sexier).  Hey, is it better,
> or
> do we lose the value of experience and maturity?  What does it mean to our
> businesses?
>
> Al
>
> Al Barsa, Jr.
> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
>
> 400>390
>
> "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
> e gads
>
> Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
>
> 914-251-1234
> 914-251-9406 fax
>
> http://www.barsaconsulting.com
> http://www.taatool.com
> http://www.as400connection.com
>
>
>
>
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> They are in my spam folder...
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> On 2/14/06, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > . . . and why they might have gotten the impression that I
> > had the slightest interest in writing "dot net" front-ends
> > for AS/400 applications? I've received two very LARGE html
> > emails from them in less than a week.
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