On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:23:20 -0500, Staller, Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>IIRC, the z800/z890/z900/z990 are "near death". I seem to recall the NO >CHANGES announcement. i.e. no model conversions or MES's. > >The z/10's are out and this is 2 hardware generations back. Even in your >situation, this seems to be a bad idea. I agree. So does everybody in my group, including my manager. This is coming from two levels up. > >Point out the financial's. The z9/BC is "paid for". After the lease >expires, a new lease can be negotiated at a lower price. That may be >enough to tip the scale the other way. > >TCO is different than cost! > TCO is irrelevant here. Cost is all important. If we can save $100 today but it will cost us $300 in 6 months, then we will save the $100 today. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
