On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:40 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I believe IBM currently uses an unofficial goal of a 5% decrease in utilization per release. > >Actually, it's simpler than that. >IBM used to promise it would not cost more for the same functionality in each subsequent release. >Mind you, if you exploit new technology all bets are off. > >(0.95)**N becomes infeasible after awhile, since this tends towards zero. > >(Also, I cannot find it on the website[s], but I remember the promise from many presentations in the 1990's) > I'd like to see that, because I recall reading parallel sysplex test reports that showed an increase. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
