Have seen this too..Best one ever...was working with a collegu Guys, Have seen this too..Best one ever...was working with a collegue..with a large client doing a SNA/VTAM type conversion. He quoted her a rate for a RFP and she said thats a lot of money to convert 11 lpars.....He told her this is a type of job that you dont hire rookies for, the ppl are experienced , had accomplished this many times before and besides...you pay the Microsoft ppl $175 / hr to go in and press the power/off power/on button of a server when it stops working...Unfortuately, I think some of the management ppl listen to much to ppl who really dont know what is going on in the MF world . Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: Howard Brazee <howard.bra...@cusys.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, October 5, 2009 10:22:41 AM Subject: Re: 500 Pound Gorilla & Downsizing On 5 Oct 2009 06:45:17 -0700, ma...@resa.net (Warner Mach) wrote: >It occurs to me that there is one aspect of the downsize mentality >that has not been discussed, and that is the "500 >pound gorilla" aspect ... When there is an economic crunch >and management looks around for where to cut they can >not help but notice the 500 pound gorilla in the room. >So, notwithstanding the technical aspects and the >financial aspects; notwithstanding "return on investment" >and "total cost of ownership," there is that gorilla. I don't think so - as much as management would like to get rid of the mainframe, they know that change is expensive. The budget to replace everything is huge in the short term, and the short term is very important to them. When good times return, is when they are more likely to be fooled into spending lots in the short term expecting to save money in the long term (when it's someone else's problem when it doesn't work). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
