getting old, sent the incomplete one .. Folks,
This request stems from serious high order ignorance. Am retired mainframer app developer very upset by our municipal IT budget ($1M, 40% salaries, 22% computer maintenance), using a Windows based server farm hardware/software scenario. In our County there are seven municipalities, likely server farm setups, total IT budget likely $4-7M, total staff likely 20-25. a) visualizing our County building as mainframe home, b) seeing a $75K IBM 114 mainframe out there, c) based on our needs, guesstimating our mainframe cost might be up to $200K, d) here's my problem .. software costs .. I can find no yardstick on vital IBM software $'s. After that comes a) telecommunications costs, b) off the shelf municipal software solution, c) inhouse programmers, d) combo of b and c, e) what have I missed? Clearly there are tons of unknowns here .. nevertheless .. might it be a $ practical situation worth pursuing .. a central mainframe for < $5M, < $2M? .. ballpark .. how much? .. suggest where I start? Thanks, be nice Graham Hobbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
