RE: More anti-midrange propaganda

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote>During "Legacy Systems: Assets Or Anchors?" Griffin Macy, VP of
enterprise system development for Waste Management Inc., said any system
more than 3 years old, including Web applications, is considered a
legacy system at his company. </quote>

Windows 2000 was released in Feb '00, so it must also be a legacy OS.
Interesting.



-----Original Message-----
From: MEovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MEovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: More anti-midrange propaganda



The Price Of Legacy
CIOs at the InformationWeek Fall Conference say their older systems are
still useful but often carry a high price tag.
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ect30EEEPF0V20B8rd0Ag

I'd like to know how much money this CIO is "saving" by getting rid of
their iSeries.

Mike E.


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