My two cents. I worked for two companies that bought the bs about ERP and WINDOZE replacing the mainframe.. Company one declared bankrupcy and went out of buisness after spending 50 million dollars (some $35 mil over budget) on the project. Company number two hit the budget ($20 mil) and now about five years later rumor has it they are seriously looking at a z/10 and z/LINUX to run the ERP software..
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Dodds, Jim Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful? "It's just a PC we can buy another, you know PCs are cheap. Hell they are running Windows we can just hire college grads that will save us a bundle of money on staff. As for reliability everyone else is buying one do you think that if it didn't work they would buy it" says the pointy haired boss. Those are all good points Henry, and we have informed management but they think this is the best way to go. What else can I say, the vendor tells them that 100s to 1000s of universities that use their product use windows servers and they work beautifully. Hell as part of the deal the vendor will set it up for you and they will document for your staff when we turn it over to them. Of course if problems come up that your staff cant resolve, they can provide service to resolve for you of course for a price tag. Jim Dodds Systems Programmer Kentucky State University 400 East Main Street Frankfort, Ky 40601 502 597 6114 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Henry E Schaffer Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:03 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful? Dodds, Jim wrote: > ... So now we are planning on spending close to $200,000 on Dell > hardware and Microsoft server software. ... Has any looked at reliability? Some hardware/sofware combinations are boringly reliable, some not so. Does anyone care? --henry schaffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
