Our management came up with: Per MIP Cost Analysis Environment Onetime Ongoing z/OS $7,300 $1,980 z/Linux $447 $61
Of course, this does not include the cost of any Velocity Software products on z/VM :) -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VTAM R.I.P. Gee, next it will be the high cost of z/OS that you will be looking at. How much do you save if you move an application from z/OS to z/Linux? Colin Allinson wrote: > Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :- > > >>Z NET,QUICK > > > Couldn't be 'QUICK' enough for us. We managed to eliminate it from VM by > the middle of last year. We went back to using basic mode CTC connections > to z/OS until they got themselves up to 1.7 with the ability to use > TCPNJE. > > The interesting thing was that it was the huge cost of VTAM that was the > main motivation for us. Given that the product was functionally stabilised > and needed virtually zero support for a number of years we were struggling > to see why. > > Once we looked at VTAM, and eliminated it, this led us to look at a number > of other relatively high cost products that we have ways to eliminate, > replace or reduce. I am not saying that we would not have looked at these > anyway but the high cost of VTAM was the catalyst to start looking. > > > Colin Allinson > > Amadeus Data Processing GmbH > > This email is intended for the recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient please disregard, and do not use the information for any purpose.
