> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Salt > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Real cost savings (was: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech > operative's blunder led to banking meltdown) > > If a company has 100 programmers and they cost an average of > $50 an hour, and they use a tool like SimpList or IPT to > improve their productivity by 10%, they could get rid of 10 > programmers or do 10% more work with the same number of > programmers. Either way, that's a very REAL cost saving of > ONE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. And if a company has 200 > programmers they'd have a REAL cost saving of two million > dollars a year (and so on).
Hum, we have 4 programmers here. I don't know their real working hours. But I doubt we could do with less. People do insist on sleep and vacations. > > Of course they'd have to deduct the cost of licensing the > software ($8,000 for SimpList or ? for IPT), but it's still > an ENORMOUS annual cost saving. And it's a very REAL cost > saving; i.e. one that directly affects the bottom line. On > top of that there's all the additional cost savings such as > reduced training, reduced CPU, reduced storage, reduced > printing, beating competitors to market, and much more (which > by itself more than justifies the cost of the tool). > > The fact that some PHB's can't comprehend this simple math is > astonishing. Maybe they could 'save' even more money by > getting rid of ISPF and telling all the programmers to use > raw TSO? ;-) > Naw, as Marie Antoinette said: "Let them use vi!". You might be amazed (or disgusted, or sickened) at the stuff that I do on a z/OS UNIX shell prompt (via ssh, not TSO OMVS). I won't say more because: (1) I know it wouldn't work, and (2) last time I did, I got jumped all over for being a contemptible fool. Or perhaps I could see if the RPF used under MVS by the Hercules/390 users would work on z/OS 1.12. At one time, I remember having a 3270 full screen editor called FSE which worked. And I'd see if there is a Q command for z/OS 1.12 (from CBT). > Dave Salt -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
