Silvio, Keep the hat close, you may (most likely) need it again. Things change, especially the cost of a MF -> Server conversion..;-)
Fletch -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Silvio Camplani Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 4:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Jobs Going Away Well, we've got 2800+ mips in 2 z990s running DB2 for SAP. We are in the process of converting to run it all on Oracle, AIX and Pseries servers. I don't deal with the financial end, but I'm told we'll be saving lotsa $$. It looks like I'll be hanging up my mainframe hat (98% of it) sometime in May, after 25 years... Silvio Camplani Bombardier (Montreal) On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:38:03 -0500, "Thomas H Puddicombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mainframe jobs going away? They seem to be moving to India, > Malaysia, and/or China. I've seen only "small" mainframes displaced > by Unix and/or WinTel. The line between "small" and "big" seems to > be around 120 MIPS (but is inching upward). "Big" mainframes seem to > just get bigger. > > Tom > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
