If they start talking layoffs, suggest an 18-month schedule... On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Ken Gunther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rex, > > Sadly our goal of getting off the mainframe still persists. We are in > YEAR 15 of an 18 MONTH project to accomplish this goal ;-}. > > Ken G. > > Pommier, Rex R. wrote: >> >> I concur also. I wonder what year my company was included in the "250 >> per 2 years" statistic. We brought in a brand-spanking-new HP superdome >> back in 2001 as our mainframe (a 7060H50!!) killer. As per my CTO back >> then "don't do any maintenance to the mainframe because it will be gone >> in 3 years". You can guess the rest. Our z9-BC is running happily; the >> superdome is in the process of being replaced by newer, smaller >> (physically) HP-UX boxes, and the "get off the mainframe" project has >> been shelved. >> >> Rex > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >
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