¿fooguy? (is that anything like foobar?)  <[log in to unmask]>
writes:

> Look at it this way - you've got five years to migrate. That's five
> years to brush up you skills on another platform, and five years to
> make the right choice of "where to move" (by the way: the wrong choice
> is Wintel/SQL Server). If you don't like Unix, there's OpenVMS (though
> I'd hold off on that, we're next on the HPaq hit list), IBM has a
> couple choices - OS/400 or OS/390 (Z/90).

Actually, unless you have unlimited funds, you don't have five years to make
the right choice.  It will take some time to migrate data and apps, and the
less people you can afford, the longer it will take.

You're probably right about OpenVMS, and can HP-UX be far behind?

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