On 24 Jul 2007 04:40:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >a lot of stuff written for mainframe involves business critical >dataprocessing ... which is significantly more effort than >a standard application. our rule-of-thumb has been that to >take a well-tested, well-debugged application and turn it into >business critical operation takes 4-10 times the original >total effort (whether it is mainframe or not). In fact, mainframe >operations tends to have some services that makes turning >stuff into business critical operation easier (i.e. compared >to having to invent stuff on some of the other platforms).
Trouble is, customers see this type of statistic and associate it with the mainframe, not the application. Vendors selling applications on *nix machines are careful not to disabuse them of that notion. Or are they right and us wrong? Certainly lots of companies get by with the lesser rigor of non-frame programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
