I had a customer that decided to leave The mainframe in 1995 and they finally might get off in 2025
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Nov 25, 2024, at 14:36, Itschak Mugzach > <[email protected]> wrote: > > LOL. > > A mainframe site in Israel plans to drop the mainframe for 15 years > or more. They started with a six years project to convert 4 core systems > that will cost 100 million dollars. After 9 years, They ended with 1 > completed system out of four that cost 200 M$. > > When will they (the new CIOs) ever learn? If it's not broken, don't fix it! > > *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere > Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux > and IBM I **| * > > *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* > *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* > > > > > >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bob Nix of AMAX Coal told me about when AMAX decided to get off the >> mainframe. To the extent that I recall the details: >> >> They hired a consultant to do the analysis. He said something like "Five >> years" and management said "Too long", fired him, hired another consultant. >> Same answer, same result. Third consultant could read the writing on the >> wall, said "Two years, no problem". So they went ahead. Two years in, >> things were NOT done. And of course the existing staff had largely wandered >> away. Finally three years plus later, they were almost done--and another >> company swooped in, bought them, and shut them down. Oops. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of Howard Rifkind >> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 11:54 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
