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From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:48 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: "FREE" BD vs. "$$$$" CF
Actually we use CICS on our mainframe. I've just started a project where I
need to deal with it for the first time.
Also, just to round this out, it was IBM Consulting Services that
"recommended" WebSphere as the obvious solution for the enterprise. The
management hired them to examine our then-current applications (written for
our part in CF) and determine our future course of action.
How surprised were we when they settled on WebSphere on AIX? Not very. ;^)
Jim Davis
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From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:20 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: "FREE" BD vs. "$$$$" CF
On Apr 21, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Jim Davis wrote:
> This isn't all that odd. in my case the problem is similar, but comes
> from
> another end. My (very large) company won't consider either product
> because
> their both too cheap - and so (goes the management opinion) are not
> fit for
> enterprise use.
>
>
I used to work for IBM Data Processing Division and many IBM products
were (rumored to be) priced this way (high) because they had a
"perceived" greater worth.
One specific product comes to mind, CICS.
This was a back-end terminal to MaimFrame CPU (no network) information
system.
It was a good system, but nowhere near the capability, power,
ease-of-use, etc. of CFMX.
Work was essentially completed on the product in the 1980's and it went
into maintenance mode (no new development)
The last I heard the number of users of the CICS (MaimFrame DOS)
version was over 30,000 users.
The average cost to IBM customers was $3,000....
per month
You do the math!
Dick
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