John, What about third party software costs? One of the justifications I used back when the z9BC was brand new (read "relatively expensive" as opposed to my bought-and-paid-for 7060) was that my CA products were about 20% cheaper on the z9. Maintenance costs were less as well.
I know that when I went through this analysis and presentation to the guy two levels above me (who was quite rabidly anti-mainframe), once he had the numbers in front of him, it took him about 5 seconds to decide that buying new was definitely cheaper than keeping the "free" old machine. Good luck. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:34 EDT, Gene Hudders <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Mark: > >Depending on where you are software wise > >That is the point and you are assuming that because he is a small shop they > are not using any new feature. > >Regards, >Gene > We are small and archaic. Basically, CICS & VSAM. No database. No Websphere. No Web server. -- 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
