From: "Timothy Sipples" : : 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. : ... : I would also rerun the numbers with zIIP. That just changed things : radically.
Mmmmm - I hear Timothy beating this drum yet again. Unfortunately I too know of a site looking to move SAP R3 off the mainframe. The apps server instances have already gone, the DB2 side is under attack. All going to M$oft, *not* Linux. To stay on a big fella, would require (at least): - VM license, and a skillset they don't have and don't want to pay to obtain. - Linux. Ditto applies; especially retraining all the Windows support people. - maybe an IFL - another US$125000 perhaps. - and a zIIP maybe - another US$125000 ???. Nope - that'd require a z/OS upgrade, a DB2 upgrade, *AND* the replacement of z990 with z9. And of course, at the moment we don't even know when they'll be available. All this in addition to all the other costs - especially the monthly software bill. I'd reckon that to be a pretty hard sell, but I don't do that side of the business. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
