RE: More anti-midrange propaganda

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"All of my financial systems are on the [Digital Equipment Corp.] Vax. If
anyone knows where there is a good source of parts, let me know," said Gail
Holmberg, CIO of Bally Total Fitness. Since Bally's acquisition of a Vax,
Digital Equipment has been acquired by Compaq, which in turn was acquired by
Hewlett-Packard, with the Vax line discontinued in the process.

Talk about high quality journalism.  The VAX line was not discontinued "in
the process" of the DEC/Compaq/HP chain of acquisitions.  Under DEC the VAX
line gave way to the Alpha line, and there was an upgrade path.  Migrating
from VAX to Alpha was and still is a viable option for VMS customers.

VAX was discontinued about seven years ago.  If you're still running seven
year old anything, including Windows, AS/400, Unix, getting caught up on
hardware and operating system is going to look a lot like Bally's challenge
on the VAX.

Bally's made a decision to treat their VMS financials as a legacy system.
It has nothing to do with discontinued products.

-Jim

-----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.