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RE: Sterling Commerce
Dennis,
It is unlikely but IBM could pick up Sterling because the mainframe
version of Sterling dominates in that market. I saw a recent article
that the mainframe business generates about 40% of IBM's earnings
because of the nice margins. IBM could buy Sterling just to keep
mainframe customers from thinking about moving to another platform.
Have a good weekend. We get the US Navy Blue Angels keeping us awake
this weekend in Seattle.
Regards,
David Frenkel
Business Development
GEFEG USA
Global Leader in Ecommerce Tools
www.gefeg.com
425-260-5030
-----Original Message-----
From: DPR [mailto:
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:58 PM
To:
Subject: [EDI-L] 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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