At the municipality where I used to work, we had calculated a rate per CPU minute to charge the user departments. When we acquired a faster mainframe and the jobs ran in less time, manglement decided the rates had to go up to keep generating the same amount of income. I guess it basically "evened out" for the departments, but it sure didn't sit well.
Then the IT director told the Municipal Court department that when the Finance department migrated off the mainframe (onto PeopleSoft or some such) he would have to raise the rates on them because they would essentially be the only department left still using the mainframe (which was not really true, but he said it anyway), so they better start making their plans to migrate off too. That didn't go over well, either. Greg -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:26 PM As an ex-bureaucrat myself, "I feel your pain". The agency I worked in was charged $2,000.00 per CPU second (in the early 1980s) on the host agency's brand-new IBM 3081, along with all the various and sundry storage, printing and "consulting" fees. Then we acquired a proprietary "document server" based on the blazingly-fast Intel 80186 CPU, with a gargantuan 60MB disk drive! We were in "deep clover" for about six months.... :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
