Indeed:
One company got a bill for 500,000 dollars (this was 30+ years ago
and from 1 vendor who will remain nameless).
Ed
On Apr 8, 2015, at 5:11 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote:
I have not mined this thread meticulously, but I did not see
mention of software costs. If you upgrade your CEC, the ISV (V for
vulture) folks will descend upon you as in the Hitchcock movie and
peck your corpse clean to the bone. IBM will be there too with beak
in motion.
The software costs of a hardware upgrade can be stunning,
especially if the bean counters budgeted only the hardware portion.
Those additional costs live on forever because the annual
maintenance fees go up as well.
Which is to say that no matter how cheaply memory or storage can be
obtained, the cost of additional MIPS looms larger than it appears
in the mirror.
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J.O.Skip Robinson
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I think this nailed it! Clueless is also correct. It did start
back in the 90's with "disk space is cheap", then it went to
"memory is cheap'
and now it's MIPS is a commodity, so is the manpower to maintain
all that stuff.
It's all in the CLOUD now anyway - who cares!
Roger
On 4/8/2015 4:11 PM, Dave Barry wrote:
In the old paradigm, technology was managed by technologists. In
the new paradigm, technology is managed by accountants. Computer
hardware and labor costs wind up on different lines of the general
ledger. They have different budgetary constraints and are treated
differently for tax purposes depending on whether they are
capitalized or expensed.
I've heard the new regime refer to MIPS as a commodity. Talk
about clueless...!
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Can someone explain and rationalize for this new paradyne ?
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"cheaper to Upgrade the mainfame than to have the application
programmers review their code for performance oppurtunities".
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Im clueless . ??
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