Re: RE: USDA Agency Looks to Consolidate 2,384 AS/400s

I have a friend in St Louis working for USDA - mainframe.
Could be IBM's selling them bigger hardware?
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 11:30 am
Subject: RE: USDA Agency Looks to Consolidate 2,384 AS/400s
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Chuck,

actually I was in a seminar 2 years ago with the guy that was head 
IT for 
USDA for Washington State or Oregon(forget with).  At that time he 
was very 
direct that all the AS/400's in the field (NATION WIDE!) were on 
the way 
out and the whole system was being replaced with windows based boxes.

Now, further, I believe that work is being done out in St. Louis.  
We have 
some of the local guys working USDA in our LUG here in DC and they 
have 
been confirming this migration off platform for at least 2 
years....with a 
target date of 2007/8 as I recall.

As I've said before it's amazing that people will indeed spend all 
this 
money to replace a iSeries/AS400/i/i5.  There has to be a BUSINESS 
REASON 
why so many companies insist on spending million$ of $$ to do 
this.  Hasn't 
anyone ask the obviousequestion:"Why hasn't IBM caught on, 
identified the 
problem and fixed it?"

I still believe that a lot of the downturn we continue to see is 
fallout 
from when IBM condemned the end user to the channel and pulled the 
IBM shoe 
leather from the streets - and to their credit, this is a scenerio 
that is 
being reversed...

Don in DC

At 09:05 PM 1/8/2007 -0500, Chuck Lewis wrote:

So what; they will have to install 20-30,000 windowz boxes ? Nice 

to know

our tax money is being well spent.

Chuck

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It's my understanding that these boxes are on the out in total 

and being

replaces with a windowz net...

Don in DC

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