Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

Hey, that's great news! I used to run a forklift.......




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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

SNIP

One of those people got a job at higher pay as a forklift operator!







You can get off the mainframe and save money! Having a company with a
datacenter already set up and running was a big help though. I'm sure that
had that not been the case, it would have taken at least a year or so more
time to convert.

Eric

---- Michael Saraco <michael.saraco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the end I have never heard of any shop getting off of the mainframe and

saving money. I don't know maybe there is savings after one or two hundred

years.

--
Eric Bielefeld
Systems Programmer
Aviva USA
Des Moines, Iowa
515-645-5153

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