SHOULD YOU MOVE APPS ON OR OFF THE MAINFRAME TO CUT COSTS? http://go.techtarget.com/r/7192091/6570353 Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
As IT seeks to cut costs in the face of declining budgets by every means possible, the mainframe now appears to be a likely source of cost savings and a likely target of platform cutting. It's been a long-standing idea that the mainframe is costly, and with enterprise apps more easy to migrate, deep-sixing a mainframe or two is easier than ever. On the contrary, over the last three years, many users have found that, in many situations migrating applications to the mainframe is a source of total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 50%. So in this era of stringent cost cutting, which strategy should IT employ: move more apps onto the mainframe or move all apps off it? The answer is, of course, that it depends. READ THE FULL STORY http://go.techtarget.com/r/7192101/6570353 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
