OK, Tim Sipples,
I hope you've been reading this thread because this
is the real world I encounter. IBM seems to have no
sense of urgency over this, but I'm might close to
closing my doors after 30 years of being a self-employed
trainer and 7 years with IBM before that.
I feel the urgency! I feel the pain.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
Stephen Y Odo wrote:
Rugen, Len wrote:
Ours is going away too.... has been for about 7 years and 2 upgrade ago.
The current plan is that will REALLY be gone in 3 years.
kinda like ours then ... we're on year 16 of our 5-year plan to get off
of our mainframe ... we've moved two of our major applications (HR and
Student Information Systems) off to our Sun server farm (about 100
servers so far) ... one more application to go (financials) ... last I
heard we were targetting 2008 for cutover ... wonder how many more
servers we'll be bringing in?
when we started this plan we were on a 3081. upgraded to an ES/9000 and
then a 9672. just completed an upgrade to a z890 last year.
the only reason we're allowed to upgrade is that we have an agreement
with our customers that we keep them on supported hardware and
software. which means we're about due to upgrade our CICS soon (we're
still on CICS TS 1.3).
hmmm ... in 2008, I'll have 27 years ... wonder if I can retire?
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