From: "Eric N. Bielefeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think that this is one of those areas where the real answer is it
depends. Every shop is different. I know at P&H we had a lot of software
that was brought in, and then sat around unused.
By the same stroke, I was at a shop where programmers were forced to use the
regular ISPF/PDF interface. Watching them work was excruciatingly painful.
They had about 120 programmers, which (at a conservative estimate of
$100,000 annual cost per programmer), would have cost the company at least
TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! When you're talking about numbers as big as
this, anything that can be done to improve productivity pays ENORMOUS
dividends.
For five thousand dollars (i.e. about 0.04% of that amount, or 5% of the
cost of hiring a single new programmer), they could have given their
programmers a far more powerful interface. This would have taken less than
an hour to do, and would have made all of their programmers roughly 10% more
productive. Do the math.
Even for a shop with only 1 programmer, upgrading the ISPF/PDF interface
should be a no-brainer. Yet there are many companies out there who still use
the same basic interface their programmers were using in the 1980's. And
this is only one example of how companies can same vast amounts of money.
It's why I contend that NOT buying tools wastes far more money than is ever
wasted by buying them.
Dave Salt
SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe!
http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm
I just wanted to point out that a lot of money is "wasted" on products
that are
unnecessary, for a lot of reasons, and that sites need to stay on top of
what they are paying for.
While I don't disagree, I believe far more money is wasted by NOT buying
products than will ever be wasted by buying them.
Dave Salt
SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe!
http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm
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