RE: . Re: IBM i 7.6 will be the last release that will deliver the .....

It is difficult for me to imagine that the ROI is positive after spending TEN YEARS migrating off the platform. Wut?

I remember a young, hotshot CIO who knew only Windows servers hired in with a medium-sized manufacturing company I was contracting at back in the 90s calling the AS/400 antiquated and that Windows could do it better. I think he lasted 6 months. AFAIK, the company never left the platform.

Acquisition/merger migrations are a different animal.

- Dan Bale

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Subject: . Re: IBM i 7.6 will be the last release that will deliver the .....

The comment made ".... Seems like IBM is forcing everyone off the IBM i as we knew it .... "

Funny thing is my last gig and my current gig are moving off the box. My last job started an IBM i conversion to SalesForce for a variety of business reasons. They started in 2015 and said it would be done by 2021. They finished last week. I left before they were done.

My current job made a few acquisitions and decided to move to the system of 1 of the acquisitions.
So now the IBM i is going away. So when I see that comment it's actually pretty appropriate in who knows how many cases.

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