Ah, software cost. I still remember the first CPU upgrade after the insinuation of tiered pricing. We budgeted for the hardware and extracted approval from management. Then we were bowled over when the software bills rolled in. Of course it was our fault for not considering the budget busting impact of increased MIPS. Not sure IBM thought it through. We now refrain from hardware upgrades because of software costs.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Mainframe co-op CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL My management decided against it, but a couple years ago, a new low tier z13 and more than enough DASD for us would have been around $400K or so. Unfortunately, the z/OS licensing was sill more than twice this. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Grant Taylor > Sent: Friday, July 03, 2020 11:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mainframe co-op > > On 7/3/20 11:52 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > I have think more or less along the same lines Grant., since I have > > retired > > Will you please elaborate on what you think and why you think it. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
