Re: COMMON Update - misc - Database - Oracle

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

YUPO!  Actually, migrating from iSeries to pSeries/AIXL/Oracle is really 
easy to do...done it several times...
just plan on losing all your existing code base and hope you're happy with 
the new software you're getting, but then if
you're on JDE or Lawson you probably won't see much of a user interface 
differences.

I know a few folks around DC metro that if they could find a nice job in 
perhaps a smaller shop that's migrating from
OS/400 to AIXL/Oracle and would hire them, they'd jump on it faster than 
you see iSeries ads disappear from the Wall Street Journal
after COMMON ends!  And, they're not sure they're stuck to staying in DC metro.

Don in DC

> I know I'm late in responding but I have to.
>
> The answer is, to provide a migration path from the iSeries to the
> pSeries, if at all possible.  Even IBM Rochester realizes the iSeries is
> on a slow but sure decline.  But they don't want to lose you as a
> hardware customer, IBM's main business, so they will move you to the
> pSeries where the dominate database engine will be Oracle.
>
> Sorry, but its the truth.
>
> Dave Odom
> Arizona