RE: Left AS/400 and Returned

["Jim Hawkins" <jim.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several years ago a company I worked for moved their HR/Payroll 
applications from an AS/400 to an Intel based application (GUI and 
"security" were the reasons-course IT knows nothing).  9 months later we 
moved back to the AS/400 based application.  The payroll clerk went from 
taking most Friday's as a vacation day under the /400 solution (she had 
been there forever) to working 70+ hours a week and no vacation time under 
the Intel based solution.  Data was constantly being lost by the system, 
nothing ever tied out, the different PC's could never communicate with the 
server with the central database and processing payroll took at least 
twice as long.  That's not to mention dedicating one IT team member about 
half time to keep the application running. The AS/400 application had very 
little IT support required. Support for the Intel application was 
horrible. A fix might break 10 other things and take 2-3 weeks to given to 
us. Help desk seemed to take their time returning calls.
The payroll clerk suffered from an infection shortly after the Intel 
system.

Names have been withheld to protect the guilty.
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 Jim Hawkins