On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:53:37 -0600, Scott Chapman <sachap...@aep.com> wrote:
>Over the last 9 years, we've held the line on MIPS growth to essentially >rounding effects >during machine life cycles. As a result, our MIPS count is up only 16% over >that period. >However, due to the "technology dividend"s, our MSU count is actually down. >I don't have all the cost data readily at hand, but I can say with confidence >that our >z/OS (only) cost decilined over that time due to the declining MSU count and >the >implementation of VWLC. Scott, Did your total IBM software bill decline or increase during that period? In other words, did they manage to recoup your cost savings by changes to the billing method for other products like CICS, DB2, Websphere? Regards, Roger Bowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
