-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: News : IBM and outsourcing in Texas <snip>
Wow! Definitely not in the mainframe mindset. <snip> You obviously don't work for government. I've done work for four different states (local, county and state levels) and the mentality is the same. And they will do this with mainframes, or workstations! In one case, by some legislative edict, they had 3 different mainframe machines (each stand-alone). All three systems could have been combined on one machine and would have had plenty of room to grow. But because of POLITICS... Today, they would not be able to justify a mainframe environment, but combined they could easily justify it (based on economics). At any rate, all of that county's IT would have run quite nicely under VM, with each "political" division having its own GUEST, and would have cut their costs by 60% for environmentals, operations, software licenses, etc. And to add insult to injury, if you had to have connections with a different department/system, you also had to have a dedicated workstation to talk with it. Tax dollars at work. No one said that government was logical. Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
