Renting time somewhere was one of several options that could have been
pursued--at a price. Since saving money was the motivation in the first
place, wiggle room was severely constricted. The math was against us.
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At 09:06 -0700 on 07/08/2008, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Going
unsupported - time to fold?:
>I once worked for a company that had previously been a big user of IMS. By
>the time I arrived, IMS was long gone after being replaced by other data
>base software. One day the finance folks called up and asked whether we
>could resurrect some old IMS files that would document an opportunity to
>save the company a boatload in some kind of tax overpayments. The number
>was worth some research. We put our heads together and decided that
>
>-- we still had valid backup tapes of the files in question
>-- we had no chance in h*ll of making any sense of the data without an IMS
>to unscramble it
>
>Besides not being licensed for IMS, we saw no prospect of reanimating a
>version that could process the data in an intelligible way. We had to give
>up.
Query - Couldn't you have rented time at a Datacenter (or a HOT Site)
with IMS and run your IMS there?
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