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Point out that many computer conversion projects flounder because of lack of up front honesty with what is needed, what it will cost, poor control over changing requirements in mid stream, and mandates what to do issued by people who lack the technical know-how to make wise mandates. Can the GAO give a report card on how many projects are started in government, how many fail, how much over budget, and the kinds of mistakes responsible for floundering and over-budget.
From the congressional hearings that I have seen on C-Span, the process is as follows: * Some high level administrator has a huge job to do, and he or she knows nothing about computer technology, but he or she has to answer to Congress "oversight" which is greatly influenced by lobbyists peddling technology in which they want Congress to mandate some solution that can only be implemented with whatever they are peddling. * A command is issued to the IT people to do whatever, which will take astronomical time and money. Long before completion, there has been turnover in the upper administration, and due to various grievances regarding lack of computer security, lack of privacy, lack of ability to make corrections, mission creep, it is determined that the original plan is no good and must be abandoned, to be replaced with a clone, that eventually runs into the same kinds of problems.
perhaps this thread belongs on a different list.
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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don >Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:44 PM >To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Fwd: USDA Agency Looks to Consolidate 2,384 AS/400s > > > > > >TODAY'S STORIES: > > > > > Top Story > > * USDA Agency Looks to Consolidate 2,384 AS/400s > > > > >It's my understanding that these boxes are on the out in total and being >replaces with a windowz net... > >Don in DC > >-- >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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