Sunday, January 21, 2007

The conversion of '07

5 days straight on this project, averaging 15 hours a day for 6 "in house" IT staff and 5 consultants. Took today off as it is Sunday, but I had to come into the office to do the "real" work that has been missed. This coming week is not going to show much work internally on this as other projects are taking priority. I used sqlplus and extracted all of the DDL for the programs and triggers, 109.302 megabytes of text DDL files (uncompressed). That was a shocker, even with almost 6,000 PL/SQL that is a huge amount.

I was made the official "Project Lead", that means that today, after spending 6-8 hours to find out why backups were failing last week and delegate the user requests that flowed in, I get to transpose the project task list and milestones into a Gant chart for our status meeting on Friday. I have to devise a project time line that will have this system running on a Linux back-ended database and the front end running on an ancient HP-UX server that was slated for the trash bin no later than the middle of April 2007. One of our SA's called HP to see about getting some warranty and parts coverage on the ancient server and the possibility of adding a CPU. He was literally laughed at, HP is looking into it and will get back to him with some options, we hope they have some newer hardware that can run the older OS and we will simply purchase the hardware. On the purchase note, we were given an almost blank check for this project on Friday, simply "keep it under 6 million", that dollar figure does not count internal IT time ("free") or the consultants who's time gets divided up and charged to the sites. The sites had came back some what appears to be valid numbers that for every day they do not have this system the chance of a processing line failure increases by 1.2%, even the smallest plant going down will cost the company $125,000 a day with the largest plant showing a net loss of $1.1 million a day. There are 17 sites that will be exposed, that woke the management up. The customer interaction and shipping data retrieved from the system is another story and can not be quantified easily into a dollar figure, the note was something to the effect of

How much is it worth when a customer who buys a million a month worth of product asks "When will my order by completed?" and the companies answer is "We don't know, our system is down".


I called our Oracle sales rep on Thursday, to talk about the licensing implications of this move, I loved the answer I got back on Friday morning - "Won't cost you any more oracle licensing as long as the old system is turned off within 60 days of the new system coming online, your covered - need any consulting?".


As I sat here writing this, 4 other IT staff showed up without being asked to catch up on missed work and work on this project. I like the people I work with.

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