Hear, hear buy that man a beer! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/7/2006 11:03 AM >>> I don't hope they have problems, but I do expect that things will require a long time to settle down. I would also be willing to bet that the xpected cost savings will not materialize, at least to the degree envisioned. It may have been the right business decision, or it may not. Even if the business survives, as I imagine it will, it will take a while to tell whether it gives the payback they are counting on. I would love to be privy to that information, just for the sake of my own curiosity. It's an interesting situation. To paraphrase someone else from the list, IBM mainframe hardware is gone from that installation, and chances are that it ain't coming back. It is never good to be complacent regarding the presumed superiority of a computer platform.
Jon <snip> 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). </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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