We have found IBM equivalent products for CA-MICS, CA-ACF2, CA-7/CA-11. I
don't know about a report archive and delivery product. We use
ViewDirect/Document Direct from Mobius for that and as yet, CA has not
bought them. (that's only funny because it's what CA does). For the
CA-11/CA-7 situation we are going with Tivoli Workload Scheduler. The
demo's I've seen are very impressive. Easy to use product. I'm not sure
what we're replacing MICS with. I believe IBM has a report
archiving/delivery product also. You can check with your IBM rep on
replacement products for existing CA stuff you have.
The kicker is this - Even after the conversion fee, and IBM software
licensing we're going to save over 1 million dollars the first year. Or so
I'm told.
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In a message dated 8/30/2002 2:11:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
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> A contract like that with CA has resulted in Hennepin County dumping
EVERY
> CA product we have and going with IBM equivalents. Even AFTER the
> conversion costs, we'll save well over a million dollars the first year.
> CA couldn't even match IBM's prices on the equivalent products for a new
> contract. If you ask me, CA has predatory pricing and will price
> themselves out of existence.
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I'd be interested in a list of the IBM replacement products and what they
replaced?
Does IBM offer a decent scheduler and rerun package?
Same question for an report archive and delivery product?
TIA
Dave
