RE: Separation of Duties...

I'm pretty sure that it would be a fallacious argument to compare a
modern business system to a life form that died out before the human
species existed on this planet.

I recently left a company who's leadership firmly believed that "the
small/medium world is now Windows."

Someday they will have to come to grips with the reality that even after
they spend the $1M plus that the iSeries replacement application will
cost they will still have to spend the cost of an 810 upgrade on a new
Intel box to house the Domino server that their iSeries runs in the
background. And lose the 100% uptime and D/R capabilities that come
standard with an i.

Meanwhile, competent Windows admins command similar salaries to iSeries
admins and are just as hard to find.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest

Happy New Year!



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Allen [mailto:scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Separation of Duties...

Mark V. --->We have survived quite well among the many.

So did the dinosaurs for a while, the days of the IBM midrange being a
GREAT machine for small/medium businesses who could thrive with a 1 or
2 man shop and a machine that jsut flat out ran forever are
gone...............

It's now the "big boys" using the LPAR's, managing server farms hosted
on the System i, etc. the small/medium world is now
Windows.................