Fw: New names -- MIDRANGE-L

Get what you pay for is right...

This company tried going from S/36 to a package on an ADP system because
subsidiary manufacturer did OK on it. No fit, but they sold them the system.
After a few months they gave up and went to a package on the AS/400, still
here.. VP says he learned his lesson good.

They were checking on software for a Y2K change, but finally decided to
adapt what they had to Y2K (yep, some 150 files, 700+ programs). My
predecessor checked a couple of packages on NT.

One NT vendor kept bragging about how fast their programs came back up, and
how clean they were after "unplanned outages". They bragged so much she
asked 'em "Well, how often does your system go down?"
They said, "Well, before we tweaked our system it was average once or twice
a day, now we've got it down to max two times a week".

Can they afford to run a company like that.?..

- Alan
alan@xmiami.com








----- Original Message -----
From: <Terry.Rhoades@blum.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: New names


>
> Bill,
>
> You should have told the interviewer that the old saying, "You get, what
you pay for." applies to IT personnel too!
>
> Regards,
> Terry
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>                     "Bill Meecham"
>                     <bmeecham@weichertrea        To:
<MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>                     ltors.net>                   cc:
>                     Sent by:                     Subject:     Re: New
names
>                     owner-midrange-l@midr
>                     ange.com
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>                     01/29/01 02:51 PM
>                     Please respond to
>                     MIDRANGE-L
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> One key item is that it's not a Legacy system!  No one wants a legacy.
> Something like that just has to be way past it normal expected life-cycle,
> it's a legacy!  Isn't that what had to be updated for Y2K, wasn't it that
> legacy stuff that caused all of the problems?  IMHDAO, if an application
> does not run on a legacy system then it's already a greater application
than
> one that does.  Imagine trying to find legacy personal to maintain the
code
> and hardware!  They've got to be older and more expensive and out sick for
> Rogaine therapy and Viagra treatments all the time.  I can hire kids that
> eat and breath this PC stuff, pay them a fraction of a legacy coder $ and
> they'll live at the office, do what I tell them to do and won't complain
> about anything.  Heck I can hire an army of kids to do this work instead
of
> gray-haired people like you.
>
> </devil's advocate>
>
> The last 3 sentences are paraphrases of what I was told at an interview
that
> I went to in late August.
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