Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

[georgia miller]

>To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
>From: Robert J.M. Edis on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 3:33 PM
>Subject: Re: Cognos coversion from mainframe to PC

Blue writes:

> The HP/MPE box is the LEAST reliable of the three and goes down whenever
> the  airconditioning fluctuates.


I have worked on an HP3000 for 19 years.  I can only remember having 
our computer down one day in the 19 years due to hardware failure.  
I would would have to say that HP 3000 w/MPEix is an extremely 
reliable box.  During the last 5 years, I don't remember it ever 
crashing except for a severe thunderstorm and we didn't have a 
power conditioner at the time.  We've had lots of troubles with 
the air conditioning but the HP still never crashed.  And during 
upgrades it has never taken more than a few hours to get everything 
running as before.   We have been through several boxes of HP3000s 
and operating systems and never had any serious problems.  We still 
have programs running in RPG that were written over 25 years ago 
on an old IBM mainframe and ported over to the HP.

My new iMac freezes up at least 4 times/week! (The newest Macintosh)

Since I have never worked on any other mini computer I have nothing 
to compare to.  But I know of one business in our town that had an 
HP3000 and management planned to convert to an IBM box because 
IBM did a lot more wining and dining of management.  After 5 years 
they still had both boxes running side by side and couldn't get everything 
converted.  They went through several programmers and noone would 
stay long enough to get the job done.  I believe they finally got converted 
all the way over but it was a huge mess.

I love HP and Powerhouse and would be happy to work on them for the 
next 6 years until I can retire.  I am looking forward to doing stuff on 
the Internet in the next year.  We have a mix of PC software and Mini 
computer software.  Some things are better to do on the PC and others 
are better done on the mainframe.  Our business systems, which are 
my babies work well on the HP3000 and we have no plans to convert 
them to something "better" in the near future.  My users are very 
happy and that's my job, to keep my users happy.

Georgia Miller, Systems Analyst
Email: georgia_miller@gfps.k12.mt.us
Great Falls Public Schools








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