If people were reporting anonymously (no company names), it would be entirely possible for two or more people working in the same area to overlap each other by reporting on many of the same shops in their 'neighborhood'. It could be difficult to eliminate these overlaps and thus the results might overstate the situation in some geographic areas. For myself, I don't plan to send in any count of shops or MIPS for my area. I do not see much point to this exercise.
David Mueller | Systems Programmer | DMS/EITS Phone: 850-414-9134 (Rm 107 SRC) | Fax: 850-921-8343 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites The above is true, however our community common knowledge is "good enough", at least as first, rough estimation. You know bigger shops in Chicago area. Let's assume someone else complement your knowledge and you'll be able to provide information about Illinois. I can provide quite exact information about total MIPS in Poland, and "not bad" about total number of shops. Other people could do it for other states/coutries/regions. Obviously it won't be 100% accurate, probably white areas will remain on the map. However it is feasible to do it at "acceptable" level. Since it start, other companies would be even interested to complement information about them. Those uninterested are still protected, since no company data will be exposed - only fraction of total MIPS base and shops number. I don't know SHARE too much, but it could be a project under SHARE 'blessing'. Just my $0.02 -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
