[geeks] On \"doing\" JD Edwards

[geoffr at zipcon.net]

> All,
> 
> I've been offered a job on our Enterprise Resource Planning team -
> designing, installing and supporting our JD Edwards install.  This is billed
> as a step up, and it sure beats the alternative, which is NOT working when
> my job is eliminated (last day is tomorrow).

congrats on the probable continued employment, and condolences on having to work with JD Edwards software.

> The head cheese describes it as "systems administration just like you're
> doing now".*  We're implementing it in Oracle, on a large farm of Solaris
> servers, and that, aside from knowing that the team is composed of true
> geeky types and straight shooters, is all I know.

On the backend admin side it's pretty standard admin work, however JDE is an application that was originally written for mainframes and it's a REALLY Crufty hack :(

> Any quickie docs, links, FAQs, how-to's for rassling with something like
> this?  I've never been exposed to Oracle, my last dealings with databases
> was with dBase III.  What am I getting myself into, aside from gainful
> employment?

if you don't already do it, learn to drink, it will help :)