Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > the internal HONE system saw similar characteristics in the early to mid > 70s ... i.e. HONE was vm platform providing sales, marketing, and field > support (eventually world-wide with datacenters all over the world; by > the mid-70s, mainframes were getting so complex, that orders couldn't > even be manually created but had to be run thru hone applications). > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
one of the severe resource drains on the hone effort during this period was that the company was telling the customers that mvs was capable of doing everything for everybody and going to extremes to obfuscate that internally, significant portions of the company ran on vm. hone was part of the data processing division (sales & marketing) and every couple years some branch office manager would get promoted to executive position heading up hone. at some point the new executive (who had been thuroughly indoctrinated in the branch office) would find out that hone was mostly vm ... and decide that they would make a name for themselves by converting all of hone from a vm-base to a mvs-base. the hone technical people would them be instructed to drop everything and convert everything to a mvs-base. usually after 6-9 months it would become evident to everybody that it was impossible and all references to the activity even being attempted would be destroyed (it was better to pretend it was never attempted ... than to attempt it and fail). after a couple years, there would be new promotions and the cycle would repeat. any references to the prior mvs conversion attempts would be discounted, frequently with statements of the ilk: mvs has significantly matured since the last attempt ... or some such thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
