Re: Another One Bites the Dust
- From: eric-ibmmain@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Bielefeld)
- Date: 31 Mar 2009 10:48:17 -0700
Dave,
Sorry to hear about that. Are you now unemployed, or soon to be unemployed?
This sounds very similar to my situation about 3 years ago at P&H Mining. I think our SAP conversion went over budget, but I don't think it was anywhere near what it cost your company. I know when we started the project, it was to take 18 months. The installation was delayed, so it took 21 months, but then it was installed and pretty much worked as designed. Two or three months later, the mainframe was turned off for good.
P&H had a big advantage over most companies. First, about half of our processing was already running on SAP/R2. Second, we merged our processing with our datacenter near Pittsburg, which was already running all of their processing on a big RS6000. By merging our processing, we didn't have to buy another license for SAP. It's really ironic, because in 1996, we took over the other datacenter's processing as an Lpar on our newly built datacenter. Then, instead of reworking all of their homegrown software for Y2K, they decided to install SAP/R3. Then they took over!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Cartwright" <davecartwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:07 AM
Subject: Another One Bites the Dust
We turned our mainframe off yesterday. Z9BC running zOS 1.4 (yes! Had a 1.7
system ready, but there didn't seem any point). I didn't know whether to
continue the "More Layoffs" thread, but stuck with tradition. I am fighting
redundancy, but not very hopeful.
Replaced by SAP on P-Series, a mere $50 million over budget.
Thanks for all the fish.
Dave
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