Sorry to hear that Rich. Many years ago I was supporting Toronto District School Board. They converted to a SAP solution. It hurt me inside but it was no were near the financial hurt TDSB felt.
Ops. My mother said if you have nothing nice to say donèt say anything. I guess I said to much. Hans -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: June-30-10 8:58 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Cross-posted to vse-l and ibmvm. Sorry for duplications. I am saddened to announce that today I am shutting down the mainframe at Grede Foundries in Milwaukee, WI. Grede was one of the Linux for S/390 poster children when the mainframe port was first available around Christmas, 1999 from Marist. There were a couple attempts to eliminate the mainframe over the years, first with Peoplesoft; more recently with SAP. The SAP implementation had a fair potential of actually being moved to the mainframe (it was sourced remotely), but wasn't financially feasible. *NOT* due to hardware or software requirements, but due to the need to hire local SAP expertise. I started at Grede in 1996 after their systems programmer moved on. I left in the fall of 2001 for VM Assist, and supported their VM, VSE and Linux systems in a consulting role, until today. After formatting the data on the Shark, VM1 and VM2 will be shut down for the last time. -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO
