I don't see anything any different. I don't hear many stories in the trade or business press about new I installations through the vertical industry initiative. My local business partner laid off their long time AS400 salesman, leaving only the system engineer to handle both technical and sales.
While I agree there will be a need for Z/os and I/os (oops, can't call it that. can I still call it os/400?) in the next 10 to 20 years as all the boomers retire, I don't see or hear much about schools teaching those skills.
We are a small company ( 1 man shop) that was owned by a medium company that sold out to a large company. Guess what is in store for us? We are going to replace our custom software that has been tweaked for over 30 years with ....
SAP!
So instead of using software that fits the way we do business, we will change the way we do business to fit SAP. It may be great stuff, but mostly what I have heard about SAP is it takes 5 screens to do what used to be done one one screen.
It seems to me that businesses do not want an IT staff or a consulting firm to maintain their software, they want a large international company with large prices to take care of the software to run their business so it can be just the same as your competitors run their business. And hire expensive consultants to make any changes needed.
So while we always hear great talk by IBM, I don't hear it echoed in the mainstream trade/business press.
The only time you hear I (I series, as400) is with the word 'legacy' and usually the words 'replaced by'
And while I'm ranting, I can't think of a worse thing than calling os/400 by a single letter I. IBM said they could not buy the rights to the term I/os. I guess Cisco owns IOS, and they have as much money as IBM.
So CHANGE IT!! Use something else.
How can anyone do an internet search for I? They could have called it IIX, or Q/os, anything useful.
We don't care about the hardware, we care about the OS. I can't think of a better way to kill the os by hiding internet references to os/400, making it impossible to search for.
IBM sure seems like it is trying to kill the as400, but is having a hard time because it is so good.
I guess they can sell more services to those running windows and unix and aix than to those running os/400.
---Dale
While I agree there will be a need for Z/os and I/os (oops, can't call it that. can I still call it os/400?) in the next 10 to 20 years as all the boomers retire, I don't see or hear much about schools teaching those skills.
We are a small company ( 1 man shop) that was owned by a medium company that sold out to a large company. Guess what is in store for us? We are going to replace our custom software that has been tweaked for over 30 years with ....
SAP!
So instead of using software that fits the way we do business, we will change the way we do business to fit SAP. It may be great stuff, but mostly what I have heard about SAP is it takes 5 screens to do what used to be done one one screen.
It seems to me that businesses do not want an IT staff or a consulting firm to maintain their software, they want a large international company with large prices to take care of the software to run their business so it can be just the same as your competitors run their business. And hire expensive consultants to make any changes needed.
So while we always hear great talk by IBM, I don't hear it echoed in the mainstream trade/business press.
The only time you hear I (I series, as400) is with the word 'legacy' and usually the words 'replaced by'
And while I'm ranting, I can't think of a worse thing than calling os/400 by a single letter I. IBM said they could not buy the rights to the term I/os. I guess Cisco owns IOS, and they have as much money as IBM.
So CHANGE IT!! Use something else.
How can anyone do an internet search for I? They could have called it IIX, or Q/os, anything useful.
We don't care about the hardware, we care about the OS. I can't think of a better way to kill the os by hiding internet references to os/400, making it impossible to search for.
IBM sure seems like it is trying to kill the as400, but is having a hard time because it is so good.
I guess they can sell more services to those running windows and unix and aix than to those running os/400.
---Dale
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