"EA MacNEIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > .. > > C'mon, mainframes ARE expensive, no doubt. Mainframe is more expensive > > than a PC, even with bubble jet printer, 19" LCD screen, double layer > > DVD-R and bunch of "Kill everyone" games. > > Windows XP, even Professional is cheaper than z/OS. > > .. > > > > Maybe, but when I have to buy 11,500 PC's for staff how much does that add up to? PLUS, the servers (& software & network & nauseum) to connect them up? > > TCO arguments are killing the Mainframe, almost as much as the fact that we are no longer advertising the strengths (including IBM). > > The best bet, when 8-year olds won't understand the TCO argument, is to stay away from costs in the entire discussion! > >
TCO is not so difficult: tell them 1 mainframe can do the same work as 11,500 PC's on the desks of the staff. That will impress them and make them understand that they cost more than a PC. Also the size can clarify a lot: I was asked sometime ago by a total illiterate on computers, what I did for a living and I said: I am a programmer (let's start simple). The first question was: with computers you mean? Yes, you can also program other things than computers. Second question was: Mac or PC? I said: neither, I do the real large ones. Next question: Real large, you mean large in this way, and he spread his arms. I said: yes, 10 years ago they filled this entire room (an education classroom), now the are as large as a couple of refrigerators. And we have two of them to manage all the automation of our entire company. He had no idea that this type of computers existed! This pictures more the correct look at mainframes compared to PC's, a total different magnitude of machines doing a different magnitude of work. A little like the almighty computers of the SF stories of 25 years ago. A machine to look up to! Hope this helps, Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
