Throwing away working system... Undoubtedly, there are communities out
there still running RPGII utility billing apps.
These days, I wonder about PaaS "Municipal Services", where the need for
hardware ownership and maintenance is reduced. Doesn't that make more
sense for most organizations (government and business)? I used to work
at a S36 shop that hosted applications for local government offices.
Seems like PaaS fits that perfectly...
IBM i is ideally suited for hosting high-performance integrated
application platforms.
Your thoughts?
-Eric
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 4:11 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM BP's that used to be ISERIES now migrating to windows ?
On 1/31/2011 3:53 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Why are governments leaving IBM i, it's simple, the political people
don't care about total cost of ownership, or stability, or
recoverability, or (the list goes on adnausea...). Same thing holds
for some corporate executives too.....
And that particular worm may have turned. I don't think it will be
anywhere near as easy during the coming years to justify throwing away a
working system for something new and shiny and expensive just because
it's new and shiny (and expensive).
Fiscal responsibility is an awfully powerful argument for IBM midrange
systems, especially existing ones. The problem will be getting new
customers, but that may follow as true cost management comes back into
vogue.
We'll see.
Joe
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