On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:12:38 -0400, David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You've fairly called some of us curmudgeons. As the joke goes: I >resemble that remark. But be aware of the graying of the sysprog and >the trap that many of us find ourselves in. I think Tim's point is that a curmudgeonly attitude does not help our case when we try to make a case for the value of the mainframe to an audience that's already chomping at the bit to move workload off the box. We need to enthusiastically accept new technologies and new workloads on the mainframe. We need to be knowledgeable of the cost-of-ownership factors (every single study I've seen identifies personnel costs as the bulk of the TCO equation, with distributed management costs far exceeding that of the mainframe. HW is a nit, and SW, while significant, still pales in comparison with personnel) We need to help our distributed colleagues understand more about the mainframe and its value. Pass them the "Intro to z/OS" web link/PDF file (http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/zosbasic.pdf) and hope that someone writes "zSeries for Dummies" (one of my medium-to-long-term goals...) I hear you on the "trap" thing. But I think we can do a much better job in projecting an image of the mainframe as a modern, cost-effective way of delivering benefit to business and not as a place for old, moldy 3270 apps. We don't want to provide more cannon fodder for the distributed fantasy-land folks. Bill Seubert zSeries Software I/T Architect IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charter member of the "Move-it-to-the-Mainframe Alliance" :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
