It has been my experience that when management wants to make a change like this,
even when it's against the IS recommendations, it is due to someone in upper
management who is connected with the company selling you this new "bleeding
edge" technology.  Sometimes this might be the CEO who is a board member of the
offending company, who sold the CEO a "bill of goods" or the latest buzz words.
Usually promising him/her the moon.
Only after incredible expense to bring the "new bleeding edge" technology
onboard, and discovering it really doesn't produce what it was claimed to do
will upper management reconsider their mistake.  They may not openly admit it
but they will find the right buzz words and phrases that will bring them full
circle.  Which means, YOU GET NEW, cutting edge, HP3000 !!!!


just my $.02 worth

L. A. Barnes


"Kevin J. Mullins" wrote:

> I've been reading this thread which unfortunately applies to our 3K's as
> well.  After almost 20 years as a 3K environment we will be one no more!!!
>
> Management, despite the recommendations of IS and much info provided to
> them, have decided that we are going to proceed with a change in our IT
> infrastructure.
>
> Our two HP3000's (one here in the US (969) and another over in Europe(927))
> are going to be replaced by a single quad-processor NT server running Oracle
> that will be located here in the US!!
>
> It is definitely a sad day....when technology is sent packing to be replaced
> by an environment that does not provide the same quality, stability,
> security and capabilities that the HP3000 offers an organization.
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