Dave,
Sorry to hear about that. Are you now unemployed, or soon to be unemployed?
This sounds very similar to my situation about 3 years ago at P&H Mining. I
think our SAP conversion went over budget, but I don't think it was anywhere
near what it cost your company. I know when we started the project, it was
to take 18 months. The installation was delayed, so it took 21 months, but
then it was installed and pretty much worked as designed. Two or three
months later, the mainframe was turned off for good.
P&H had a big advantage over most companies. First, about half of our
processing was already running on SAP/R2. Second, we merged our processing
with our datacenter near Pittsburg, which was already running all of their
processing on a big RS6000. By merging our processing, we didn't have to
buy another license for SAP. It's really ironic, because in 1996, we took
over the other datacenter's processing as an Lpar on our newly built
datacenter. Then, instead of reworking all of their homegrown software for
Y2K, they decided to install SAP/R3. Then they took over!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Cartwright" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:07 AM
Subject: Another One Bites the Dust
We turned our mainframe off yesterday. Z9BC running zOS 1.4 (yes! Had a
1.7
system ready, but there didn't seem any point). I didn't know whether to
continue the "More Layoffs" thread, but stuck with tradition. I am
fighting
redundancy, but not very hopeful.
Replaced by SAP on P-Series, a mere $50 million over budget.
Thanks for all the fish.
Dave
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