This sales pitch is getting annoying. Additional comments below. On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:11 +0000, Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>From: Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>The real, total cost includes: >> >>- Management time to evaluate, negotiate, and purchase > >Evaluation is usually left to be done by the people in the trenches. Not anywhere I ever worked. > >>- Sysprog time to install, secure, configure, etc. > >Anyone can install the ISPF/PDF interface upgrade, That depends. Does he have a panel library that he can update? >It doesn't take a sysprog to install it. In any case, it takes >less than an hour to install. Not likely, but I'll grant that you might have an easy to install interface. Maybe I'm a little slow, but > >>- Training time. Takes no training? Really? Not even a memo to announce its >>availability? > >No training, really. No need to announce availability; just stick an option >on the ISPF menu. So I install your product and I'm instantly using it like a pro? Does that mean that I won't need to bother using your help either? >But if you want to send a memo to announce it, I guess you >should add about 10 minutes to the overall cost. Hmmm... I've already spent over ten minutes on your product and I don't know enough to write the memo. > >>- Help desk time (particularly if you scrimped on the training - some >>people >>can screw up anything) > >Help desk people absolutely love it. The phone rings, and the the help desk >answers: >HD: "Hello, this is the help desk." >Caller: "Hi, I've run out of space in my data set. What do I do?" >HD: "Select the data set using function 'I' (Information), then overtype any >attributes you want to change". >Caller: "Great; thanks!" I have a PDS that's compressed and full with 16 extents and I can fix it by overtyping something on an information panel? Not likely without some authorized code unless you're going to allocate a new data set and copy, and that's of limited value. >>- Cost of future maintenance > >$5,000 annually. No additional fees when upgrading to bigger/faster >mainframes. > >>- Management time to negotiate future upgrades, etc. > >See above. So you say. I looked for Ts & Cs on the web site but couldn't find them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
