On 14-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Seubert) wrote: > 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)
What isn't clear to me is what amount of that distributed management costs are going to be incurred anyway. Also project creep occurs even with mainframe to mainframe conversions. People get new software and they want more once they have looked at what they have. But the big thing to remember is that they don't want Unix boxes, they don't want mainframes, they don't want Wintel clusters. They want to run their jobs more efficiently. New packages promise to do this. Salesmen don't always tell the whole truth when they make these promises, but what are we promising them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
