I'll have to officially call this a "rumor" and only specify the general parameters, but I'll see what I can say.
Apparently there's some group sponsored by some software company that alleges that it makes business sense to move everything away from the mainframe to an unreliable, expensive, proprietary, inefficient, worm/virus-infested platform that the software company happens to sell. I'm sure I don't know any group like that. Well, the group scheduled a conference, prepared a schedule, and sent the schedule out to prospective attendees. The schedule included a "success story" of a company that had allegedly managed to make this very peculiar move (or at least declared its intentions). The company also provided a testimonial. (Rumor has it that a Google search shows the testimonial available on the vendor's Web site.) Right after the schedule went out, the success story.... 1. Fired its CIO. 2. Purchased a new mainframe (a z890 as it happens). 3. Redoubled its mainframe software investment and development projects to address actual business issues rather than their ever-swelling IT budget. I'm sure it would be interesting to compare the first conference schedule with the actual delivered schedule. Rumor has it, of course. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
