One more thing to consider. The monthly maintenance costs of a z800 are higher than a comparable z9bc, and they will get worse as the older the equipment the greater the increases.
Also, there may be some increase in environmentals costs. Thanks Bill Bishop Specialist Mainframe Support Group Server Development & Support Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. [email protected] (502) 570-6143 John McKown <[email protected]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 07/14/2009 09:40 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: MSU question z800 vs. z9BC 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
