Based on ongoing SW & HW maintenance, buying the Power 8's was a no-brainer instead of keeping the Power 7's. And, yes it was done with full awareness of the planned new ERP. I'm OK with that <grin>.
After growing up with this platform (for the last 32 years), I'm obviously biased towards it. I have no aversion to learning something new though - always exciting.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 2:58 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Another FTP question for the group
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our company has made the decision to move to a new ERP (vendor TBD) and is not considering the IBM platform at all (don't get me started).
No more investment in this platform although, just last week, we moved to a pair of new Power 8's (8286-42A) with all SSD's. The local box is LPAR'd for Prod & Dev and the other is an HA machine in another state. What screamers!! At least, I get to work with nice new hardware and current OS for the next few years until the new ERP comes on line.
Amazing. It sounds like you're saying the company bought the two new
Power 8 boxes *despite* abandoning the platform for the upcoming ERP.
Or, if the order of events was slightly different, then they decided
on abandoning the platform despite buying the new IBM boxes. Either
way, a bit of a head-scratcher.
It also sounds like this company is well-heeled. And, for all I know,
they purposely decided that the more up-to-date IBM stuff will
facilitate the migration away from IBM (an idea which does strike me
as having some merit; trying to migrate at the same time that you're
fighting disk space and performance issues was definitely a challenge
for us).
Well, I will definitely be curious to see just how long it takes for
the new ERP to come on-line. If this company has sufficient will and
is allocating sufficient resources, maybe it will indeed only take a
few years. But if their management is like our management (just with
more money), then it could be a lot longer, if ever.
John Y.
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