Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries

Well...

Don in DC

At 09:36 AM 6/30/2006 -0400, you wrote:

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.

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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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