>Well, we've got 2800+ mips in 2 z990s running DB2 for SAP. We are in >the process of converting to run it all on Oracle, AIX and Pseries >servers. I don't deal with the financial end, but I'm told we'll be >saving lotsa $$. >It looks like I'll be hanging up my mainframe hat (98% of it) sometime >in May, after 25 years...
Funny, Baldor Electric runs a 100% mainframe SAP installation (using Linux on z and DB2 z/OS) and spends less that just about anyone running SAP on anything. And they have the total cost numbers to prove it. (Computerworld had a nice article looking at a similar sized company to Baldor to determine IT spend as a percentage of sales, and it happened to be a comparison with a heavy Oracle shop. Baldor is amazingly efficient.) I would set up a call with Baldor. You're both manufacturing industry, so it should be relevant. You two might have a supplier relationship, for all I know. (Baldor builds electric generators.) I'm also assuming you're not a 24x7 (or nearly so) SAP shop? I would have expected Bombardier would be. I'm wondering if your management has read anything from Gartner lately about Oracle. Here's one interesting article: http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177104038 I would also rerun the numbers with zIIP. That just changed things radically. I'm puzzled that DB2 distributed wasn't apparently considered. IBM and SAP have a very good relationship across the entire DB2 family, and DB2 tends to be more total-cost affordable on any platform. And, lastly, I would ask IBM (BCS, not hardware or software) for a "Scorpion" study. Good luck. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [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
