In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/13/2006
at 08:01 PM, Brian Westerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have been reading this string with a lot of interest. For the past
>10 years or so, the company I work for has made a LOT of money moving
>people "BACK to the mainframe" after their failed attempts to migrate
>things to a "client/server" and in a some of cases to some other even
>lesser platforms.
> I went to our client profile list and did some cursory checking and
>found that we have more than 50 that have been "moved back" to the
>mainframe just in the past 7 years (it gets harder to tell from the
>notes that are older than that) 22 of them were my client sites that
>I worked with, and I was very surprised because I hadn't really
>counted them at the time. I can remember at one time in the 90's
>wondering if I could start moving my skills set to more Unix-centric,
>and I actually had to attend a bucnh of classes over a span of
>several months, but it was to be able to move people BACK to the
>mainframe not to help them off of it. We actually had a special
>"Sale Price" offer a couple of years ago to manage the migration back
>to the mainframe that worked very well for us and the companies that
>contracted with us to handle their "re-migration".
Kol hakavod (kudos)!
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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