Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 09:54:38 CDT 2009
Hi John, I have forwarded you the name, e-mail and phone number of my friend who would be fabulous for this project. He is a wizard with....well pretty much everything computer related. He has been writing stuff in JAVA of late but back in my mainframe days he was the guy I went to with any problem I had. He did the "systems" work on our mainframe - installing and maintaining the operating system and other infrastructure as well as engineering our major applications systems. There was literally NOTHING he couldn't solve. Smartest guy I have ever known I think. And he likes to be challenged so this might be a fun diversion for him. And he likes to travel. So all in all a good fit I think. He's been a independant consultant as long as I've known him - 35 or more years - and has been semi-retired for about the last 20 but continues to work for the challenges and for keeping busy and making some spending money of course. If you don't get the offline message, let me know and I will try again. GK On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote: > Just got this from a retired friend: > > Quick question - do you have any old buddies (retired or not) that are > familiar with VSE running on a 390 D model? If you do and they want to make > some very good money, please send me their contact details. Also, if you > know of any old 390 D's anywhere that could be purchased for parts. The > bank that I work for has two 390's in their Bermuda location. One > production and another for spare parts. The hardware has been completely > off maintenance for two years and the software hadn't been upgraded for > something like 5 years. The only application that runs on it is the core > banking system which is also about 5 versions of updates behind. If it > shuts down the bank is dead. It's a mess to say the least. > > The bank has hired EDS to convert us to a new, Group wide, core banking > system but we have to keep the old 390 running until the conversion is > complete. Probably a year away at a minimum. What we're trying to do is > find another machine for parts if needed and a team of 3 guys (knowledgable > in VSE) that are willing to work to upgrade one machine's operating software > and the application software in stages to bring it to the last stable > version. I figure that if no one bothers this team and they have free run > to do what they need to do and buy what they need, this could be done in > about 3 1/2 months. But you know me, I'm always optimistic. I anticipate > that the bank would be willing to pay $400 per hour per person plus expenses > (living & travel) to make this happen, plus a finders fee for the person > that puts the deal together. > > Let me know if you know of anyone interested or if you know of any old > hardware sitting somewhere that needs moving and we'll be all over it. > Looking forward to hearing from you. Talk soon. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-OT mailing list > dba-OT at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-ot > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com