> I bet the number of customers migrated off the mainframe is higher than > number of new customers.
And I bet that most of those decisions probably cost those companies MORE money in the long term. Isn't management by magazine great? :-( Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 7:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM Richards, Robert B. pisze: > Bang! For passing biased opinions! :-) > > TCO studies are not always commissioned with predicable conclusions. Lots are > done in-house. In-house TCO studies can also be biased. Of course that general remark, YMMV. > And if you have ever seen stupidity in action on TCO just look at any > datacenter that has an "acre" of racks of blades and tell me that those > onesies and twosies purchases to run SQL apps would not have been more > cost-effective to deploy on a System z. This is a true story and not an > isolated one at that. I even had an idiot enterprise architect tell me when I > asked him about horizontal scalability of his apps and the datacenter > floorspace at ZERO tell me it was merely a real estate issue (build another > datacenter...sheesh!). True but does not negate anythig I wrote. BTW: Stupidity in action can also be observed in mainframe world. > Every shop I have ever been in DID grow in MIPS while I was there. No > smokescreen there. You did not understand. I said that MIPS growth is no excuse/explantaion for shrinking number of mainframe shops. Sometimes mainframe shops disappear due to consolidation, but sometime because of migration to other plaforms. I bet the number of customers migrated off the mainframe is higher than number of new customers. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2009 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 118.763.528 zotych. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchway XXI WZ z dnia 16 marca 2008r., oraz uchway XVI NWZ z dnia 27 padziernika 2008r., moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 123.763.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym BRE Banku SA bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
