Re: Annual Maintenance

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Exaccle-waccle," as Howland Owl used to say, Jim Oberholtzer.

In any enterprise, on any platform, the Winning Strategy is always a team
that is alive, alert, learning, growing, moving forward with the times,
fracturing and re-annealing the system.
It's an endless journey.
So are you, Mr/Ms CIO, building, refreshing, repurposing that team
constantly?
Or are you just waiting for retirement to force you off the platform?
If you *want to stay on IBM i, you're hiring now, training now, modernizing
now* or you are headed for the emergency off-platforming exercise which
will cost you 8-figures-ish.
And if you think it will be cheaper and easier and more secure once you're
off the IBM i ... ah well ... woo hoo ...

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:18 AM Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That it might be cheaper to roll your own very well may be true, Jack,
> particularly in the longer term, out more than 5 years.
>
> The problem is not technical talent at this point, it’s institutional
> knowledge and knowledge of the application itself that comes into play.
> Are the application subject matter experts at your company close to
> retirement, chances are the answer is yes, it takes some time to be
> educated that well.  Again while I rail against the fees software companies
> are charging (usually to cover acquisition costs etc.) is the alternative
> better, good question.  That’s what they pay the big guys to determine.
>
> Half my customers roll their own with some purchased stuff like Brad’s,
> TLAshford, DBU etc.  mixed in.  Then again the larger ones are all
> purchased applications with NO modifications.  Ya lay your money on the
> table and toss the dice…..
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Agile Technology Architects