Re: Another one bites the dust

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

One of my clients made that decision last year, and threw several
million dollars at the project to get it up and running by end of
fiscal year (sept).

they still haven't closed period 1 (october).

On 12/11/06, pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx <pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of my clients made that decision 7 years ago. The iSeries is still
> running their business. They even had to put in a 520 last year to "tide
> them over"
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> Paul Nelson
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> 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, no idea of what
> hardware it will run on. I think that timescale is a little optimistic but
> it matters not, another one goes and 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. Saying that he seems to have been on a crusade for
> about 9 years to replace the box.
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> I personaly do not see it as there always seems to be enough going for the
> contracts against me, but it does seem to be re-iterated, like a broken
> record, by a number of people.
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> Whatever the reason, another nail in the iSeries coffin.
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