Cognos coversion from mainframe to P

[Jon Hawks]

The last few e-mail's aside, I would consider the
inevitable and think over what it would be like in the
new environment.  Skill sets,administrative costs,
efforts, etc.  Be in the future environment and
discuss this with cohorts.  Here,even. There's a few
good speculators that can draw the picture of this
environment and put a cost figure to it.  Also, you'll
have think over the benefits.  

I would consider convincing the folks behind the push
to Unix, to consider the HP 9000 series and stay with
a single vendor if possible.  

Psst, personally, playing with a syntax-bound, typing
nightmare, operating system that uses the same editor
I was exposed to in 1974, and hasn't changed since
then makes me irritable. 

--- Carol Kaffenberger <kaffenbe@karmanos.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> pickerij@norbord.com wrote:
> 
> > Why would you move away from one of the lowest
> cost per transaction, most
> > reliable, easiest to use and yet most open (i.e.
> Posix compliant)
> > hardware platforms in the industry with probably
> the most robust,
> > reliable, flexible database (and it's free with
> the os) of all time in
> > order to saddle yourself with MS and Oracle?
> >
> > But then maybe you're just looking for a time and
> money consuming
> > adventure at which to throw lots of time and money
> :-)
> >
> > Five years ago folks thought your proposed
> migration was the cool way to
> > go. Time and money, not to mention the astounding
> lack of success of many
> > projects, has made those who waited look like the
> smart ones.
> 
> I'd love to hear from someone who has tried to
> migrate Powerhouse from MPE/ix &
> Image to Unix (Sun) & Oracle.  We love HP & Image,
> but cannot convince
> management or the systems people to keep it.  A few
> 'true life' success/failure
> experiences may help to persuade them.
> > begin:          vcard
> fn:             Carol Kaffenberger
> n:              Kaffenberger;Carol
> org:            Karmanos Cancer Institute
> email;internet: kaffenbe@karmanos.org
> title:          Information Systems
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> 
> 

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