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

USDA may need better software, or maybe not.... Old (legacy)  <> bad.

Trust me - the USDA software is bad.  If I recall correctly - one of the 
reasons it was never converted to native was that the RPG II conversion 
tools had trouble getting a handle on the truly awful file structures etc.  
It could have been done though - but they wouldn't pay the price.  They were 
determined many years ago that they would move off the system.  The fact 
that it has taken this long to even get to this point speaks volumes.

Now they, like hundreds of others before them, will spend millions of 
dollars (and that's just the budget over-runs!) lining the pockets of 
consultants and many many years trying to convert to a 
Windows/Oracle/Whatever "solution" instead of having started evolving what 
they have fifteen years ago.

Glad it's the U.S. Taxpayers money and not mine that will be wasted <grin>



Jon Paris
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