On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:38:33 -0400, Michael Baier
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>haven't heard/read any success stories lately.
>has anybody migrated or plans to do in the near future?
>
>Michael
>
 Most of the success stories in the HP3000 market have to do with getting
the funding for "stay or go" investigation and planning onto the
management agenda. The sites that were already in motion before HP's
announcement of the phasing out of the 3000 are further ahead of the
customers who did not yet have a plan.

Our customers range in size from very small to Fortune/FTSE 100 companies.
Every organization must go through a business risk assessment process
before picking the path that is right for their organization. One of our
largest customers had to go through a sustainabilty plan as each of their
large applications interfaces to several other systems and will need to
have integration testing planned and scheduled, including with trading
partners (customers and suppliers). This customers current staffing level
and other realities will have them homesteading while migrating
continuously until Q2 2011 ... 6.5 years elapsed time to move 11 major
applications ... until you do the plan you do not know the risks nor the
schedule that it takes ... this customer once senior management saw the
facts started the migrations immediately and freed up the resources and
funds to begin execution while at the same time making changes to lower
their risks.

The low impact migration bundle is AccuCobol, Eloquence, MPUX and we
expect to have several go live success stories over the coming months ...
it is not for every site (sometimes you should buy a package and adapt to
it) and depends heavily on the available skills of the IT team.

For more info or help with planning just drop me a note ...

Birket Foster
M. B. Foster Associates - The 1-800-ANSWERS folks
Extension 204

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