This request stems from serious high order ignorance.
Am retired mainframer app developer totally upset by our municipal IT budget (over $1M, largely salaries), using a server farm hardware/software scenario. In our county there are seven municipalities, likely server farm setups, total IT budget likely $5-7M.
Visualizing our County building as home base and seeing the new IBM 114 mainframe out there for $75K is easy to spot (and guestimate extra to suit our needs) .. not easy is the $'s for an OS/other vital IBM software .. like how much? After that it becomes a question of a) off the shelf municipal software, b) inhouse programmers, c) a combo.
Clearly there is so much missing info from myself .. nevertheless .. might it be a $ practical situation worth pursuing .. a central mainframe/software for < $5?
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