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

The IBM/IRS story is even better and more dollars than most
people can even imagine.

I believe the IRS is on their 3nd or 4th variation. The last
system installed was completely thrown out as unusable.
(Unix/Windows/etc)

As I recall, IBM was being sued by the "other" guys and of
course IBM went right to court after the "other" guys and
the money just kept raining.

Of course we would want to mention the FAA disaster(on going).

Government money is good work if you can get it....



Jon Paris wrote:

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>