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<DIV>"So what idiot in your company decided to move from an advanced and low TCO
<BR>OS to a more primative and costly one? I have worked on both platforms
<BR>and even on a conversion from OVMS to HPUX and remember the pain of using
<BR>HPUX vs OVMS. OVMS is available on the Itanium now as
well.<BR> <BR>Bluey"</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=389034221-16112006>OK, Bluey, here's
the sad story. And you know that those of us who build screens, reports,
interfaces etc. usually do not get a choice of what op sys to
use.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=389034221-16112006>The company was
running on DEC equipment. In '96, they bought a package and installed it
on the DECs. In '97, according to what I was told, the software vendor
told them VMS was not going to be around much longer and they were no longer
going to support it. The vendor then persuaded the company to switch to
HP9000/HPUX.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=389034221-16112006>Ironically, some
time later the company realized they were not getting much support for the
support fees they were paying to the vendor.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=389034221-16112006>So, they dropped the
vendor support anyway. They have been doing their own custom PH work
in-house for sometime. But the company was bought. Now, the parent
company says this company has to switch to Oracle applications next year.
And so, sadly, another user is dropping PowerHouse.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=389034221-16112006>Roger</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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