My 2 cents....Two previous employers dropped the mainframe for SAP one on HP UNIX the other laughably on WINDOZE servers. The HP conversion was budgeted at $10 mil .. a few years and $50 mil later the company went bankrupt. Company 2 managed a sucessful conversion but now they spend all of their time adding hardware and rebooting WINDOZE. There has been no savings or increase in productivity.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Rich Smrcina <r...@velocitysoftware.com>wrote: > I was involved last year with a large SAP implementation in the NYC area. > When done right, it can be a good thing. But yes, it does take a fair > number of people and a good deal of planning. The System z deployment is > saving them (the NYC company) a boatload of money, though. > > Their SAP implementation on z is much faster than the one they came from > (which I think was Solaris, or maybe AIX). > > > On 06/30/2010 09:02 AM, Edward M Martin wrote: > >> Hello Rich, >> >> I am always amazed at the cost of SAP and salaries commanded by SAP >> programmers. >> >> >> Ed Martin >> Aultman Health Foundation >> 330-363-5050 >> ext 35050 >> >> >> > > -- > 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 >
