Bob Nix of AMAX Coal told me about when AMAX decided to get off the mainframe. To the extent that I recall the details:
They hired a consultant to do the analysis. He said something like "Five years" and management said "Too long", fired him, hired another consultant. Same answer, same result. Third consultant could read the writing on the wall, said "Two years, no problem". So they went ahead. Two years in, things were NOT done. And of course the existing staff had largely wandered away. Finally three years plus later, they were almost done--and another company swooped in, bought them, and shut them down. Oops. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Heh, "Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another" The company I worked for many years decided to go in a similar direction. Needless to say they only had very moderate success, never completed the project before going out of business. Servers laying all over the computer room and just one 3090-xxx running VM release 5.xx, 4 MVS O/s, VM under VM running a real old version of IBM DOS because of an old hardware 3340 issue (ISAM never converted to VSAM. This story isn't new, seems management just can't decide which platform is the right box to run the business and get the most out a buck. On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another > > https://planetmainframe.com/2023/06/sabre-is-getting-off-the-mainframe > -one-way-or-another/ > > "No, really, we mean it this time." > > And this is almost 18 months old; I can't remember how I came across > it now, alas. ("Senility: not just a river in Africa") > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
