>I know a place where management allocate staff driven by >the sysprog/MIPS ratio...
Let's see, in the early 70's we had a model 65 with an MVS maintenace person, an MVS build person, a JES2 guy, a program products person, an MVS debugger, and VTAM person, and a network person. So, that was about 7 people for under a MIP. Does that mean that with a z990 of 5400 mips, we should have 37,800 people supporting the z990? What a thought. LOL! We have about 15-20 people supporting about 80 LPARs (VM,MVS,Linux) with about 10 VM images, 1,000 MVS guests, 50 Linux guests, and 60 standalone LPARs on a total of about 45,000 mips. Shouldn't our software staff be 315,000 people? ROTFL! And that doesn't intclude the FE staff (we have 3 for the 45,000 MIPS plust 30-50 TB of dasd). We had 4 for the 65 in the 1970's - someone had to babysit the core memory add-on we had. The mind boggles (though it doesn't take much in my case :-) ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
