:) this reminds me of another Fortune 500 aerospace company i worked for, the new engineering director didn't want to spend the funds to upgrade the CADCAM 3090-400 to a 3090-600 . he decided to move the application to a pool of RS/6000's for the application and data, a new ATM network definition and an RS/6000 on every desktop for the engineers, that solution performed so badly we found most engineers would attempt to login to the RS/6000 wait a couple minutes then log back on to the mainframe system. another issue was software updates, at the time very time consuming, by the time the last desktop RS/6000 was upgraded it as time to start over again, kinda like the guys who paint the golden gate bridge, once you're done, time to start at the beginning ")
Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Quay" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:08:41 AM Subject: Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes" My Fortune 500 employer got off their mainframes by using SaaS vendors for most of the big BICARSA applications that ran on their mainframes. What back end those SaaS vendors use is anybody's guess. They also decided in the case of some applications that they would move to Intel hardware based solutions running Windows or Linux. They eventually had to state "we don't care about data integrity". Sure enough it was not long after that I got a marketing letter that said "Thanks for being a loyal customer since 1900." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
