Three of my last four clients have two-year projects going to get off the mainframe. All three (as I recall) are between five and eight years into their projects and no end in sight. It's an open jest among all the IT guys, but no sign that management thinks any differently about it in any of the three cases.
I no longer worry that my days there are numbered. A contractor always gets sent home eventually, but I doubt it'll be because they suddenly completed that project. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* It's never good news when a bunch of people learn the name of a boat. -Philip Bump @pbump */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 18:32 I had a customer that decided to leave The mainframe in 1995 and they finally might get off in 2025 > --- On Nov 25, 2024, at 14:36, Itschak Mugzach > <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > >> --- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
