Jon, Great! Two things, add a comment from Fred about the additional money they spent and the financial strain it placed on the company. And, secondly, I want to audition for the roll of Joe, I am really good with smug grins. Jeff Kubler Kubler Consulting >Ok, since this seems to be "everybody's a wanna-be ad man" season, >here's my submission for an HP3K TV ad script: >Joe: So, Fred, I hear you guys are making big changes... >Fred: Yup, we're in the fast lane now, buddy. As soon as we finish >our data migration from our legacy system, get the latest round of >patches installed to fix our crashes, fine-tune our performance >settings to solve the response time lags, and re-train all our users >on the new software, we will be rockin' and rollin'! Then we'll be >able to start looking at all the cool cutting-edge stuff like >web-enabled applications. Hey, what's that you're doing? >Joe: Oh, just flipping through some of the forms on the new web front >end to our system. We went live last week with a java-based >client-server model with direct web access to all our data, intranet, >extranet, full mission-critical production database deployment with >near-instantaneous response and 99.9% uptime. >Fred: What? I thought you were still on that old dinosaur system >you've had for the last twenty years! >Joe: (turning with a smug grin) We still are. >(fast cut to HP3000 logo with standard caption: > "Worry-free Business-Critical Computing") _______________________________________________________________ Jon Diercks * Systems Manager * Information Technology Services [log in to unmask] (PGP available) Anderson University >http://users.anderson.edu/~jon/ 1100 East Fifth St >(765)641-4305 * FAX (765)641-4568 Anderson, IN 46012 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com