On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:08:44 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Out here on "Planet Earth" it seems that most of the companies trying to >"move off the mainframe" are doing so to save copious amounts of money in >the short term (the "long term" seems no longer to exist).
Of course based upon the flawed assumption that such a move actually will save their company money. Which, in the vast majority of cases is pure fiction. It's usually because of bizarrely-flawed chargeback mechanisms that grossly misrepresent the actual cost-of-ownership and make that cheap Intel server in the corner look like a bargin (until they look to see that it actually takes 10 or 20 of those servers to host one application, and several people to do the same level of administration that is done by half that many for the mainframe equivalent). --- Bill Seubert zSeries Software I/T Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
