On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:45:09 -0400, Said, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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 :) I'd very much like to know how you came up with those numbers. Can you br eak it out in any more detail? (Software versus hardware, for example?) I'm charged with lo oking at moving z/OS work to z/Linux. The price for an IFL engine is $125,000. I don't think t he cost for a standard engine is fixed, but someone at SHARE once said the cost ratio was about 4:1 (standard:IFL) FWIW. People here won't give me a cost number for the software "because we have an enterprise license". The biggest problem I have run into is that most z/OS program products do n't have equivalents in z/Linux. (The exceptions are in the Tivoli and WAS spaces.) Most applicat ions we have depend on these program products. Of course a new application would not have this problem, but around here, those are being written for the midrange. Server consolidation should handle this, but so far we have not gotten this through the political hoops. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
