Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-07 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Froberg, David C > > Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue: > > 'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting? > "We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-07 Thread Timothy Sipples
>I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three months after FCS and is >ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly includes a 54-way. >Nothing better to be proud of? Have no idea. Maybe we'll find out together in mid-January from Mark Loughridg

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-07 Thread R.S.
Froberg, David C wrote: Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue: 'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting? "We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL progr

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-07 Thread Froberg, David C
Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue: 'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting? "We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL programmers working on a project

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-07 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Phil Payne wrote: I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three months after FCS and is ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly includes a 54-way. Nothing better to be proud of? I've heard rumours about catastrophic z9 acceptance, but thi

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Marian Gasparovic
There were also 54 way machines shipped, also some (not 54 way) Linux only ones, but until it is official reference marian On 12/7/05, Richards.Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know of numerous 10,000+ MIPS z9 accounts, but I'll let those shops > speak up for themselves should they so ch

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Richards.Bob
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9 I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears al

IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Payne
I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three months after FCS and is ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly includes a 54-way. Nothing better to be proud of? I've heard rumours about catastrophic z9 acceptance, but this is even more extre

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Jon Brock
Another mention of the Hannaford system is here: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,106776,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=106776 (Mind the wrap. http://tinyurl.com/anju3 should work temporarily for those of you who have trouble with the wrap.) >From the article: "T

IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think this is the first publicly announced System z9 total go-live shop. (Anybody else want to make an announcement? :-)) Congratulations to Hannaford Brothers. Details in this IBM press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/051205/0103015.html?printer=1 Sorry, don't have an ibm.com lin