On 15 Jan 2007 04:01:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote: >*IBM* software pricing "per MIP" keeps declining, taking all factors into >account and for the *typical* environment.
But businesses don't directly consume MIPs. They consume processed data. This makes it more difficult for the software salesman to make his case, as the choice isn't limited to running the same system with different models of mainframe. Instead, customers want to know performance in transaction time, capacity, security, reliability, and expandability for their accounting system or data warehouse or web server or all of the above combined. Since different vendors have different software proposals and different types of CPUs, the salesman can't rely on MIPs to be meaningful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
