>>Please let us all know how the IT budget is doing in about a year. It'd
>>be interesting to know what the budget was in the year pre-project and in >>the year post-project (for an apples-to-apples comparison, if that's >>possible). >In this case, if they have done the job right, the IT budget should >show a reduction in expenditure since the work has been consolidated >into an existing system. That's not apples-to-apples. That's why I used the term "pre-project," as in, before the distributed SAP systems even existed. That's the apples-to-apples comparison. Sounds like a moot issue, though, since the original poster won't be able to provide such data to satisfy my curiosity. :-( I do know there are some all-mainframe SAP implementations with documented record low total costs -- and very happy customers. Baldor Electric is one with such hard data. They focus on total IT costs as a percentage of company sales, and they're more efficient than peers. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
