>Pacific Systems Management in Australia provide TheBill. http://psm.cx/ >
This is very interesting to know Chargeback Systems are alive and well down under. But looking at the website, I notice a number of things which make me nervous. 1. Copyright on the web page is 2002 2. Supported systems are mainframes (good show) 3. Supported systems are UNIX (OK) 4. Supported systems are AS/400 (thought these were iSeries now) 5. Supported systems are Windows NT (so has 2000, XP, and Vista not just made it their way yet). Maybe these mainframers are just to busy to update a web page with more current info. If indeed anyone is using these in a current z/OS V1.9 or later with also maybe feeding zLinux info out of Velocity Software's info, would be curious. Around here the main focus for the last number has been Disaster Recovery since 9/11. I am predicting there will be a movement towards Chargeback soon to attempt to define where IT costs are residing. My view of Chargeback is it has two sides; COST and REVENUE. The revenue side is easy because in the end someone always has to pay (may be contentous but it still the money comes). The difficult side is the COST because IT likes to bury costs for others in side deals besides masking costs for items and then lumping them into either overhead or historically in the mainframes CPU charge. In summary, I hope this firm is real and can offer an alternative to SAS, IBM, CA, PACE (Komand), and a number which escape me for now. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
