On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Allan Staller <[email protected]> wrote:

> From previous experience (with another vendor),
>
> Beware of any promises made by sales team (sales, tech marketing,....).
> If (whatever it is) is promised and agreed to, ensure it is written into
> the contract with an appropriate penalty for non-performance (up to and
> including cancellation of the contract w/refund).
> Of course it would be up to your legal team to ensure proper contract
> contents.
>
> I have seen to many cases of over-promise/under deliver to not be
> extremely wary of any such vendor.
>

​This is _exactly_ why the outsource of our z environment failed. The
vendor failed to deliver what was promised, when promised. I even heard
rumors that they came back to us about half-way through the project asking
for us to pay an extra 10% because they we're making any profit on the
contract (fixed cost). After we said "No!" (or more profane words to that
effect) is when the project _really_ got bogged down.​ The contract itself
did not have any penalties for missed dates.



>
> HTH,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of James Wellingtin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Migration of Mainframe to other plat form.
>
> Hey
> I know this here might be  a bit of a nasty question to ask Have a
> customer who has intensions of migrate to another platform than IBM
> Mainframe, don't know what ?
> They have asked MetaWare to be the stakeholder in this .
> At the moment it is in the very very beginning of he process.
>
> I think this is an issue, that we all face right now .
>
> Does anybody have  had experience with Metaware, and tell if they had
> success ?
> That is , did they succeed in full migration or partial migration ?
>
> Or was it all dropped ?
>
> All input would be appreciated
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> James
>
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