On 1/31/2013 9:37 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
One programmer, who has roughed out a system, using VSAM or DB2, has, for
the sake of argument, 2-3 man years of coding to do with debugging. So we
will say 3 to include documenting and testing.
US$500 * 12 * 3 = US$19,500 Just for the system out of Dallas.
Having paid many tens of thousands of $ in my younger days on a per-CPU-second
basis for time-sharing to develop my software ideas, a flat $500/month for
multiple developers using a fully-supported, private z/OS system with the latest
hardware, an exhaustive software stack, and expert technical support seems
pretty darn reasonable to me!
By comparison, an MSDN Visual Studio Ultimate subscription from Microsoft is
$13K + $5K/year PER DEVELOPER, doesn't include hardware or system configuration
expertise, and provides only four tech support incidents per year.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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