>On the same system, an IMS DB/DC system managing customer service - 6 to 8 >seats, paying in absolute terms actually more than the CICS/DL/I system.
>It worked out at something like $23,000/butt/month. Guess what? The customer >moved it to Prime, and the mainframe lost another application. You have to take all $ per all butts. You cannot cherry-pick. If you start saying that CICS is cheap, IMS is expensive, you are slitting your own throat. It has to be all $ for all butts on a specific platform. All else is apples vs oranges. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
