On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:33 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > .... But management doesn't want they just sitting >around idle either. That doesn't "look good" to higher level corp. >management. Simply a "no win" situation, short of a CPU upgrade. Which >we are pushing for, but who knows? >
Sounds like nobody has done the cost analysis of programmers sitting idle vs. an upgrade to provide good response. Instead they want you to work harder. If 16 programmers spend an average of an hour a day waiting because of poor response time, that's equivalent to having two programmers who are idle. What does that cost? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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