Thanks Tim and all, How about saying hello to my son also working in Tokyo?
--- Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Black writes: > >I am told that you can sign a contract to provide > 1.4 service after the > >EOS date, but the price may be steep > > There is an extra cost for extended support. > > I have no idea what IBM charges for z/OS extended > support, but one thing I > can say for sure is that it never gets cheaper as > each year passes. That > makes sense when you think about it. The first year > there may be some other > customers buying the same thing, and the code isn't > too far distant from > current coding efforts, so the programmers in the > labs can serve extended > support customers without too much extra burden (and > with a sufficient > funding base from a pool of customers). But as each > year passes there are > fewer and fewer customers interested in paying > extended support, and so, > over time, you might end up funding a group of > service people (and service > infrastructure, such as maintaining z/OS 1.4 LPARs > on a separate and aging > piece of hardware) all on your own since you're the > only one left. > > And there's the concept of "opportunity cost": if > the programmers are > fixing something for you in z/OS 1.4 that's time > they're not working on > z/OS 1.12 -- and their work on z/OS 1.12 is very > valuable indeed. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Specializing in Software Architectures Related to > System z > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM > Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
