RE: Power: Was: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh. I'm working on bringing a payroll system back from the Oracle Black
Hole.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:19 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Power: Was: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

Just this week a local company reached out to me after spending $6.5M on 
a move to Oracle based software. That software, the CIO and most of his 
team are gone. The "AS/400" is back out of the closet, and recently 
upgraded. I should be getting over there soon to assist in moving them 
into 'the future of i'. :-)

     - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 9/28/2011 9:59 AM, Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> A previous employer has been trying to migrate their System I workload to
a Windows based solution since 2001.  They currently say that they are "two
years away" from shutting it down.  On the other hand, they've been saying
that since they were on a 720 running V4R5, through two hardware upgrades, 4
O/S upgrades and now their third Admin.
> They are spending $1 million a year on this migration project and every
year the System I budget line is $0 (actually maintenance only.)
> Regards,
>   
> Scott Ingvaldson
> Senior IBM Support Specialist