I did a report from MXG data one time which cast much of the mainframe work in (Windows) server terms (i.e. batch jobs were "background tasks", , started tasks were "Services" etc. A little different from the server farm concept (which I also like), but still useful.
It does help some PHB-types to draw comparisons. It also helps to point out to such bean-counters that often you are serving the _same_ number of customers with _one_ piece of hardware. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
