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Sterling Commerce
On one hand I can feel sorry for Sterling. No company likes to get bounced
around like a ping pong ball.
But on the other hand, I can see where that might have had it coming. They
really put themselves on a pedestal, and said goodbye to all the people that
really could work with and manipulate their product.
Of course the basic engine for their products were all bought from someone
else, and all the platforms did not use the same engine. That makes it
difficult for platform transitions.
I loved when I worked for them directly and as a consultant. It was the
working with the customers that made it all worthwhile. The company itself
had a lot of hurdles that always had to be overcome. Even when you made
improvements and passed them back to development, they ignored the
employees/consultants.
Oh well, that is behind me, and for all we know, may be the death knell of
EDI. I just cannot envision IBM picking up a dying product when they already
have their own translator. Of course I could see CA coming in as a "white
knight" (?) and buying it out for the maintenance base.
I would still love the chance to work on mainframes. It took so long to get
to the expert stage, that it bothers me somehow to just be thrown aside with
the garbage because PC type platforms are the hot commodity.
Was I a follow the leader type person? Nope. Never have been, never will be.
Only a couple of customers got me riled up enough to where I would say I
will not go back there. And I opened my big mouth one time and got all kinds
of hell. But I had a knack for traveling 90-95% of the time, and changing
hats and techniques every week. Some assignments were teaching Gentran, and
others were setting up the shop. I had a JCL technique, that once
implemented, and interfaced with the scheduler, made Gentran purr like a
Jaguar XKE. I wasn't limited to single threading. I understood where the
processes were and broke it at those points. And it was reliable and easily
maintainable. I could switch from one version to another, including the file
conversions in 2 weeks or less.
As they say, what goes around, comes around.
Just my 2 cents worth, your mileage may vary
Dennis Robinson
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