RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

From the management viewpoint, this decision does not surprise me. The

CEO demands results and likes anything gui. When the CEO thinks gui, the
ceo thinks Microsoft/PC. CFO wants it done as least expensive as
possible. COO wants the least expensive streamlined operation.

All these things are great from the "C" and senior mgt Level.

What I miss or leave out? The CIO and the senior IT management staff. If
this group does not lead the charge on all the fronts stated above that
the iSeries can "do it all" (don't think IBM will do anything), then
Microsoft or Oracle will always win. ON THE FRONT END. Pfizer may well
regret the decision 10 years down the road if (and they won't) do a cost
analysis of total cost of ownership between the iSeries and a Microsoft
or Oracle solution. Just the personnel cost alone is staggering.

Maybe this should be moved the miscellaneous lists?

Bentley Pearson
Vice President - Information Services
Southland National Insurance Corporation
1812 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, Al
35403
205 345 7410
bpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Berman
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:49 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

I assume you are being sarcastic.

Bad news to report, Pfizer North America has finally decided to dump
their Mapics AS/400 that is running their manufacuturing. They will
spend $300 MIL and 8 years to go to either SAP or something Oracle
based.

This is a definete blow to the bright future some would say the
Iseries has.

Mike

Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why do you say that? With the terrible shortage of RPG programmers
today, you'd think this would have a lot of weight...

Ron Power wrote:

Yeah,
That might have held some weight about 8 years ago... but not today.