I think what IBM wants is to only support Mercator in an edi enviroment in a Websphere setting. If you have Commerce Broker, you either buy Websphere (no upgrade path or pricing available) or go get another translator product. I've been through three "our way or the highway" deals in the last three months, and each time the customer opted to dump and replace. At a very large price. The attitude that IBM has is worse than what Ascential had. IBM just doesn't care about the small and mid-sized customers. It's very sad. And whomever is doing the pricing must be doing some real nice pharmaceuticals, because these prices are in the clouds. You can go price WTX on the IBM website. Go. Get sticker shock. It's really sad.
The other side of this story is that there aren't jobs out there for us. And, if there are no new sales, there won't be any more new jobs. It's time to learn a new product and to move on. Maybe webMethods? Steven Santillo wrote: > Our plan was that MB will route our EDI. We thought > that it would pass the data to datastage TX Runtime > for all the EDI functions from translation to passing > the files to SAP. Our IBM (sales rep/advisor with no > EDI experience) said we should not use the datastage > TX runtime because it's not going to be supported in > two years. So it's the runtime piece we should not > use. We would use MB to call the TX map and the output > would be routed back to MB to move to SAP. > > Now the problem is that MB does not have any built in > EDI functions like trading partner admin, etc that I > know of. I'm new to this product. Our IBM consultant > plans to us a lot of java to do what TX does. > > A person on our team is checking further with IBM to > get a better ID what they plan to do with TX. We > figure that a big piece of TX will have to be > incorporated into MB for the EDI stuff. If I hear > something I'll pass it on. > > > > > > > --- "Jim D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Steven, >> Can you share your source of your statement that IBM >> will sunset DSTX >> except for the transformation engine? I was in on >> an IBM road map >> presentation 2 years ago where it was pointed out >> DSTX was being moved >> into WebSphere product line but I don't recall >> anything said about >> withdrawing support for the Event Server (now >> Launcher). >> >> Thanks, >> Jim Divoky >> EC Solutions, Inc. >> 330-606-6826 >> >> >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a PS3 game guru. > Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. > http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 > > > ... > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, > <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> > > Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> > IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Brian Lehrhoff, EA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 Upgrade your Quickbooks for 20% off at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com Circular 230 Notice is located at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com/230notice.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
