McKown, John wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
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I just wonder if they will experience the quarter closing
where it takes
3-10 times longer than predicted. And then that first year end
closing...
Another thing I wonder about is, well, will they have rounding issues
because of floating point? Or will they have issues with fixed point
binary and rounding?
[...]
And we will never, ever know. No company will admit to a mistake of this
magnitude, if indeed it turns out to be so. Too much liability in a
sue-happy world. Perhaps S. Korea is not as sue-happy as the US. I hope
not.
Maybe we won't know the details, the horror stories from administration
room.
However we will see if the company survive. There are companies which
got rid of mainframe and survived. It is possible. Sometimes it can be
profitable (less costly).
Of course we can still "suspect" (or rather hope): what about security,
do they need more staff, maybe they were oversized very much (are YOU
oversized???), maybe their application was horribly inefective, maybe
they will have problems with EOQ/EOY, maybe they have problem with
response times, etc.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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