RE: Another One Bites The Dust -- MIDRANGE-L

I don't know, can you? Anyway the parent company has many many HP servers at 
the big plant here in the Netherlands and it will be using them instead of the 
iSeries, I suppose they just want to standardize everything.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Harvell, Joel
Verzonden: maandag 11 december 2006 14:57
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Onderwerp: RE: Another One Bites The Dust 


Can't you run Oracle on an Iseries???

 
Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Raby, Steve
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Subject: RE: Another One Bites The Dust 

I know what you are talking about Robert, we moved over to the
Netherlands because the contract work dried up in the UK. Permanent jobs
were just about all in London or on such a salary that I would have been
hard pushed to afford the trailer park option. The cost of living in the
Netherlands compared to the UK was such that I could afford to take the
permanent job, which lasted 18 months before I got so bored and had to
move on, the last job I had are also getting rid of their iSeries,
mainly because the parent company in the US has an Oracle based system. 

Why they are changing here is a mystery, all the people on the shop
floor here like the green screen option, they are just keying in a few
numbers, or using handheld scanners, and a few still have dumb terminals
so they could still work the 3 times the network went down in the 6
months I have been here. I am told the only outage they have had with
the iSeries over the past 15 years was once during a powercut. 

Still the bloke in charge wants it so he knows best, right?

Steve



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Robert W. Munday
Verzonden: maandag 11 december 2006 13:22
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Onderwerp: Re: Another One Bites The Dust 


Steve,


<<<  I was informed here on Friday that the AS400 (iSeries) will be
replaced 
in the coming year by I think it is an Oracle based system  >>>

I don't know why these folks want to replace the iSeries with "something

better".  A few years ago, one client hired some Java programmers
because a 
higher-up heard the buzzwords "Java" and "Websphere" and wanted to
convert 
every application to Java.  Java is a slug compared to RPG and the
concept 
only lasted a few months.  The Java folks were let go and the client is
a 
solid RPG shop now.


<<<  one of the main reasons that the guy gives (although I feel it is
just 
one excuse he can point to) is the lack of skilled programmers.  >>>

As a skilled programmer, I find that there is a serious lack of iSeries 
shops in which to work.  There is no work in my home town and almost
none in 
my home state.  In the past three years I have had to work in Nebraska, 
Indiana, South Carolina and Ohio because those were states where I could

find programming work.  I have been in Ohio for over a year with at
least 
nine months to go.  I'd like to go home but I have a famliy to support
and 
if I desired to toil twice as hard for one-fourth of the pay, I'm sure I

*could* find a job at home.  It would mean downsizing our lifestyle...
we'd 
have to move out of the double-wide and get a single. That would also
put us 
in a section of the mobile home park I really want to avoid.


Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Dublin, OH