John, I'm sorry to hear about that. As I've posted on this list before, I went through the same thing from 2004 to 2006. P&H Mining got rid of their MP3000, and replaced it with RS6000's. Those are i series, right? Everything runs on SAP in a different state. They seem to be happy with it. If you can get retraining, take it. There seems to be a lot bigger job market in that area than z/OS.
Eric ---- John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it looks like the company that I work for is really going to try to > get off of the z. As I understand it, they have reputable people telling > them that an iSeries can do the work for about 1/2 the cost. The z > software cost is simply outrageous in this day and age. The estimated ROI > of the conversion is 2 years. The estimated duration of the conversion is > around 1.5 years. Supposedly, we will be retrained. But, given some other > happenings in the company (like laying off 200+ people company wide just a > couple of weeks ago), I am really unsure of this. > > > Maranatha! > John McKown -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Washington University St Louis, Missouri 314-935-3418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
