Mary,
<Fred Fahmy, a long time poster on this thread, who has been missing of late, has described how his company, a Fortune 500 type, cut their reliance on legacy mainframes...>
Here I am <gg>.
Actually, we are now in the Fortune 500 and we eliminated, not cut, our reliance on mainframes. We do have a handful of AS400's around the world, but no big iron.
Overall, our IT support and performance has been excellent since we got away from mainframes. We have saved a ton of money and have a much improved environment.
Re: Lou Gerstner and IBM
Big Lou has done a good job of getting IBM's valuation up, but in my opinion it has been done largely with smoke and mirrors. I am convinced that IBM still has some very serious long term problems. What many Gerstner enthusiasts fail to realize is that the downsizing/streamlining of IBM was largely over before he got there. The huge headcount reductions (approx 100,000 over a few years) occurred under John Akers reign. Gerstner inherited a much improved cost structure which made "turning IBM around" a much easier proposition.
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