On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:44:32 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > > >_I_ am not permitted to talk to anyone. No one from the tech services > side > >has has any input into any part of this. We are a "hindrance" to the > >process due to the number of questions we ask (which the vendor cannot > >answer glibly). > >Also, that would mean a lots of money and a lot of time to get them to do > >anything "outside the scope of the original contract". They (outsourcers) > >are already trying to renegotiate the original contract because the agreed > >upon price is not profitable enough. > > > Ummm... They won't stay on the z. They won't spend what it costs > (tangible and intangible) to get off it. The modal experience is that > they'll struggle with the status quo for several years. > But, on the plus side, that gives me a job. > > But first they kill the messenger. > Yeah, they learned their lesson on this (inviting us) a few years ago when they were trying to get off of z/OS. We asked so many questions which could not be adequately answered, that the project got killed by upper management (the vendor you selected was obviously clueless). This of course, gave the (then existent) I.T. management a black eye (and they left soon after). > -- gil > > -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
