Your first big hurdle will be political: getting all the jurisdictions to agree to a cost share. You will need them to acknowledge that the security product will give separation of data and the like if they behave as other jurisdictions that I've dealt with in the past.
Sent from iPhone - small keyboard fat fingers - expect spellinf errots. > On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Graham Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
