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To: DAVID FRAILEY who wrote (1785)	2/20/1998 8:32:00 AM
From: King David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

DAVID, I am not much of an OO guy, but it was my simplistic view that ... ... on the negative side: - OO was still not ready for high volume transaction systems due to the overhead of the messaging required to run OO - OO skills in the marketplace are scarce - the tools market to support OO development is not mature - initial development cycles are longer ... on the positive - OO reduces time to market of subsequent solutions - OO reduces maintenance cost. IMHO, It seems like a risky move to base the future of the Genesis project on OO. Agree? Disagree? Think I'm off my rocker? And please tell me that IBM is not working on this project. KD

To: DAVID FRAILEY who wrote (1785)	2/22/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

>>They just purchased the fasted Mainframe available by IBM, G (something). This is all part of their Genesis project to consolidate hardware/software platforms. This will reduce dramatically the maintenance cost of the various vendors they have in house. Their business is driven by Hp9000's, Sun enterprise servers, and Tandem Mainframes today. Would you care to enlarge on this a bit? Specifically, how does moving away from HP, Sun, and Tandem servers dramatically reduce maintenance costs into the future? I'm not trying to be contentious, but. as others on this thread know, I am skeptical. I would really like to hear a sound basis for this statement.