>What about 3rd party software. It, as always, depends (on the vendor).
>Every time we increase MSU/MIPS we get nailed from third party vendors. We found a couple of them quite reasonable, and some not so. We replaced two of the vendors who were not so. One product was a work-alike with costs of 20%, better support, and no training required. The second required training, but the vendor did it for 'free', and they also converted our production processes (batch & manual through ISPF). And, the costs again went down by 75-80%. We also managed to convince a few to convert to usage-based and the SCRT. It depends on how agressive you are with the vendor. We also dropped a few, without compromising the business, productivity, nor development. All of this was done at my recomendatio, if I do say so myself, and, as I said, it depends. You can't just roll over when an ISV, or IBM for that matter, sends you a new billing rate just because you upgraded. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
