RE: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries

There's no reason no to use Java on the iSeries.  Our project's
development path for the last several years has included doing
enhancements and features using Java and WebSphere.  We're getting the
best of both worlds.    


Kat Kruse

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From: midrange-l-bounces+kkruse=qualcomm.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+kkruse=qualcomm.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Raby, Steve
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 06:47
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries

Actually just had a chat with the boss and he is full of praise for the
iSeries, one of the reasons he/they are thinking about it is that he
cannot get decent RPG programmers. "It is very difficult" he was saying
"and all the ones we get are like you, grey haired, all the younger ones
are going for Java and the like."

So what is the answer? I don't know.

Steve

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Verzonden: vrijdag 30 juni 2006 15:36
Aan: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Onderwerp: Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their
iSeries


It's too bad IBM can't help provide a cost of ownership analysis and/or
bullets of why it's best to keep one of the best business computers in
history.  
 
  
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Raby, Steve <agnictsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:47:41 +0200
Subject: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries


Hello Chaps and Chapesses,

I was on this list last year, and left the company I was with to go
contracting for GEAC, not knowing of the imminent take over. But I
digress, that is not the problem, I have recently taken a contract here
in the Netherlands at a place that has a fairly new iSeries(year or so
old I think) on 5.2. The system they have was written in house over the
last 10-12 years in RPGIII and I am in the process of helping them bring
it up to date and I am trying to help that along further using what
little I know of RPGIV/ILE. The guy here is really enthusiastic to learn
all he can from me (in exchange he is teaching me ASP and HTML), the
problem is now they had a meeting here yesterday and horror of horrors
they are talking of replacing the iSeries with some other system, oracle
or some such rubbish, over the next couple of years.

So the help we require is how do we convince them not to replace the
iSeries? We need to build up a business case (I think money is the
biggest consideration for
them) and any help anyone can give us would be most appreciated. It is
not that I am scared for my contract, there is enough work to keep me
going for a few years even if they do decide to change, I just dont want
to see another iSeries shop bite the dust.

I hope this is the right list to mention this on and my apologies if
not.

Thanks in advance

Steve Raby
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