We often see such corporate exclamations of intention, but is there any organization that keeps track of successes and failures and will make these results public?
Those statistics, company names and general environments attempted would be interesting and perhaps useful for arguing against further stupidity (if failures exceeded successes). This goes for IMS to DB2 conversion attempts as well. Larry Altman On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:44:52 -0600, Doc Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've yet to see a mainframe to client-server transition that didn't end in >tears, higher costs, lowered service levels, gnashing of teeth, roaming >gangs of SysProgs threatening passers by in Hex, large cracks appearing in >the Earth's surface and all life in the Universe coming to a crashing halt. > >But then, that's just me... :D > > >On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:55:17 -0700, Kopischke, David G. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Greetings, >> >> From SearchDataCenter yesterday: >> >>"Simon & Schuster Inc. plans to save $1 million a year on hardware costs >and >>licensing fees as a result of migrating off its old IBM mainframes." >> >>http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1 >172792,00.html?track=NL-451&ad=544960 >> >> >> >> I'd like to see a follow up to this next fall to see how well they >fared. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
