On 7 March 2010 06:35, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For reference, when you convert $150,000 in 2009 to 1975, you get $38,040.
> That is, a total IT budget of $38,040 in 1975 would be equivalent, in
> Consumer Price Index terms, to a $150,000 budget in 2009.
>
> I don't know.... Did anybody work for an organization in 1975 which had a
> total annual IT budget of $38,040 or thereabouts...and which owned and
> operated a dedicated mainframe on-site with licensed software? I think that
> would have been much *tougher* than it is in 2010. ("I remember when
> Hershey bars cost a nickel....")
>
I don't know about a total IT budget of $38k, but in 1975 licensed software
was pretty much a novelty. The first priced version of MVS (or any other IBM
OS except perhaps ACP/TPF?) had yet to appear, and most software was written
in house. Some shops were using priced IBM software like PL/I Optimizer, or
the COBOL equivalent, and bigger places ran non-free IMS and/or CICS. And
there were priced (duh) products from other vendors, like Syncsort. But
buying run-the-business application packages was pretty rare.
Tony H.
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