Re: Another FTP question for the group

I've seen exactly this scenario a number of times.

The logic seems to go along the lines of getting everything in order before
the environment is sunsetted. Thus the last major expenditure on the
existing platform is to get new hardware to cover the remaining life of the
system and get the OS in place so no more changes are required going
forward. The condemned man's last meal you might say.

Of course it rarely works out that way because ERP implementations always
run over time and over budget - but everybody thinks their implementation
will be different.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:58 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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