You're jumping to the conclusion that squatty boxes are -cheaper- than a mainframe, while in fact they are -not-....overall. They may initially cost less than a mainframe but by the time you add a 5+ to 1 people cost per application to the squatty end, they are actually more expensive.
And the "smoke and mirrors" that squatty box people pass off to the end user, becomes a nightmare for the end user. Management by magazine has done a great job of convincing these people life couldn't be better.....if they'd just get rid of the mainframe. Take a guess. If a current report, on the mainframe, takes 24 hours to print, how long will it take to print it on a printer in the user's department. The squatty nightly backups run (when they actually run) 12 hours and they are just adding another 8 TB of disk. The mainframe has 1.x TB and the applications going on the squatty boxes are -replacing- ones already running on the mainframe. What do you think is it going to be more or less expensive in the end with a squatty solution? Bill Mainframe - An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies, serving billions of obsolete customers, and making huge obsolete profits, for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice fast as last year's. -Phil Payne- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
