Migration from Powerhouse MPE

[Peter Bateman]

Roshan:

  I would not re-write the application in COBOL.

  I would look at the time frames. I would use the conversion to PowerHouse 
on Solaris
  as learning process to find out what your users really want. I have seen 
IT convert away from
  PowerHouse only to have an user uprising on their hands .

  By the way -- where have you been looking for PowerHouse resources?

Regards,
Peter Bateman



>From: Roshan Shah <roshan_shah@yahoo.com>
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Migration from Powerhouse MPE
>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Guy,
>
>Thanks for the response. I am aware of the effort of
>rewriting in 3GL. But the question is when the final
>move to J2EE/.NET is decided after this interim urgent
>migration need, what would be availability of
>Powerhouse Resources and more importantly at what rate
>? Even today, I find it difficult to locate these
>resources and God knows what would happen then..
>
>Well - Either today or maybe some years down the line
>Powerhouse has to be replaced with Future State
>Platform.. I feel that it would be a wise decision to
>do it now...! Unplugging powerhouse means that We only
>then have to deal with COBOL technology in future
>reengineering.
>
>Just few thoughts.. I'm sure others would have better
>ideas!
>
>Roshan Shah
>
>--- Guy Werry <guy.werry@hbms.ca> wrote:
> > Speaking STRICTLY for myself (not for my
> > corporation!), I would question
> > re-writing in a 3GL.
> > Given the level of effort that's going to be
> > required - on-line Cobol is no
> > picnic, might you be better off going to another
> > 4GL, like Powerbuilder, IF
> > there's more of a talent pool out there?
> >
> > You have to consider the productivity hit that
> > you're going to take.  I have
> > 22 years in the business, starting with Cobol and
> > moving to Powerhouse.  I
> > head the maintenance effort for all of our software,
> > so we have Cobol,
> > Fortran and Powerhouse.  I DO NOT write a report in
> > the 3GLs, unless a Quiz
> > report is impossible, because the productivity in
> > Quiz is so much higher!
> > So, if you re-write in Cobol to save license costs,
> > you will be paying
> > through the nose every time that you develop a
> > report in Cobol - even with
> > templates it will probably take you 2 to 3 times as
> > long to develop the
> > report - especially in the case of simpler reports.
> >
> > Another possibility is internal training / career
> > development.  If you have
> > people who are half-way loyal, then training them in
> > Powerhouse, even if it
> > is just internal training can work pretty well.
> > Unfortunately, we don't
> > know if your shop is relying on consultants for
> > work.  If so, then the
> > internal training idea may not be feasible.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roshan Shah [mailto:roshan_shah@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: September 18, 2003 8:36 AM
> > To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject: Migration from Powerhouse MPE
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanted to have your inputs on strategy of doing
> > Powerhouse Migration to Sun Solaris.
> >
> > a) Migrate Powerhouse Application to Solaris.
> > Powerhouse is available on Solaris
> >
> > b) Rewrite Powerhouse to COBOL! (Licencing
> > Powerhouse
> > is very expensive)  - Should one at all have
> > Powerhouse even if it is an interim solution looking
> > into the fact that Powerhouse resources are scarce
> > and
> > fast depleting.
> >
> > Also when in future if Powerhouse Resources are
> > needed, they will not only be very expensive but
> > very
> > rare!
> >
> >
> > Any other recommendations ?
> >
> > Roshan Shah
> >
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