Migration from Powerhouse MPE

Michael D Gorsich gorsichm@dteenergy.com
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:53:35 -0400


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It my company refused to pay people commensurate with their
skills and experience we could also claim that PH people were
rare.  The hours per day isn't the problem (unless you also
don't pay for overtime).

It seems after having made the bed you are having trouble
sleeping in it.

Bottom line:

Pay people.... they will come.

Michael


Roshan Shah wrote:

> Well, Let me put it this way..
>
> 1) They are rare in India at least at the moment. I
> know at least of 3 companies ( including mine) looking
> for them
>
> 2) Yes - we do have training program.. But to train
> anyone and expect the person to know it all does not
> happen. Best learning is experience.
>
> 3) US / UK / Australia rates could be cheap but can't
> be as cheap as that of Offshore Services Companies..
> and guys in India work for 10 to 12 hours almost daily
> .. not to mention that many a times they also work on
> weekends to meet the tight deliveries...
>
> Now, while writing this, I have no intentions of
> convincing anyone on India's capabilities but that's
> the way it is here and I know it is not a fair
> practice to have anyone work so long..
>
> Thanks
> Roshan Shah
>
> --- stewm@canada.com wrote:
> >
> > Roshan, by PowerHouse resources are scarce do you
> > mean
> > there is noone to do the work?  I know of about 7
> > guys
> > out there right now with decades of experience that
> > can't find work with PowerHouse and are looking.
> > Through an ad out on one of the popular job search
> > engines, with a half decent rate, I'm sure you'll
> > still
> > find resources.
> >
> > Mark Stewart
> > Consultants Club Corp.
> > 1-519-739-0297
> >
> > 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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