Yes, regardless of the platform, a company has to have both competent management and competent employees or they doomed to fail.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points > > Don: > > A *LONG* time ago (20 years) I worked at a hospital that ran a MF and > a LOT of PC's. > Upper management (and indeed lower management) were hanging on by a > thread because the MF system they BOUGHT was outrageous outdated. > It didn't help that the MF management people were to say it nicely > incompetent. > The PC people were tripping all over themselves with users filling up > their HD's filling up with porn. > I left for a lot better job. The MF people just continued on their > stupid incompetent ways till the MF was doomed to failure (another > year). > The MF people they had hired were scared for their jobs as they saw > the writing on the wall. > The tech support manager came out on top as he got the PC people but > their problems only multiplied. > > Ed > > On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Don Williams wrote: > > > In my company's case, it's not a matter of asking our vendor to > > work with > > IBM. The vendor already works with IBM, but has chosen to phase > > out their > > mainframe product and create a new one that runs on PC-based > > servers. For > > various reasons, the hospital decided to open the field and look > > for a new > > Electronic Medical Record (EMR) package across all platforms. My > > understanding is that there is no viable EMR package available on > > the z/OS > > platform. This made me wonder -- is there no EMR vendor who chose to > > develop their product on the z/OS platform? I expect that successful > > vendors carefully chose their platform(s). If they are not chosing > > z/OS, > > why not? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > > [email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:01 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points > > > > Don Williams asks: > >> I wonder what percent were using z/OS? > > > > I think you're asking what percentage of new mainframe customers > > run z/OS. > > IBM doesn't say as far as I know, but it's over half (greater than > > 50%) > > according to what I've read elsewhere. That's in agreement with my > > anecdotal experience. > > > > With respect to the application discussion, I generally agree. > > Fundamentally IBM is keeping pace or even leading in providing all > > popular > > (and even not-so-popular) application hosting environments on > > zEnterprise, > > and that's important. (Java is an example where IBM was/is ahead of > > the > > curve.) Also, if there's an application that isn't yet on > > zEnterprise that > > you'd like to see on zEnterprise, ask the vendor, and ask the > > vendor to > > work with IBM. IBM has been increasing its application developer > > support > > resources recently, and there's a steady stream of new applications > > announced every month, every quarter, every year. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > ------ > > ---------------------------- > > Timothy Sipples > > Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore) > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM- > MAIN > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM- > MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
