Amen to that.
And to complement - when plans do not materialize, they do not stop the
madness, they increase spendings to make it ...more mad. And more. And
even more. And they start to looking for those to blame. Like mainframe
folks who take care about the system.
(can't say more)
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Dave, I regret to hear of another mainframe shutting down. It's a shame
many companies do not realize exactly what they are doing until it is too
late. I don't know about WSU, but the companies I've been involved with
who migrated off of IBM mainframes were surprised to find how much it cost
to
Stupidity runs wild...politics and corp. rule
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I wish
I wish this wasn't true, but we continue to move towards shutting down or
z/OS systems. Last night I shutdown VPS and DRS from Levi, Ray and Shoup. I
wish to thank LRS for the one month license extension they granted us at no
charge. Our employees did get W2 forms :)
I also shut down our
