If a company has 100 programmers and they cost an average of $50 an hour, and they use a tool like SimpList or IPT to improve their productivity by 10%, they could get rid of 10 programmers or do 10% more work with the same number of programmers. Either way, that's a very REAL cost saving of ONE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. And if a company has 200 programmers they'd have a REAL cost saving of two million dollars a year (and so on).
Of course they'd have to deduct the cost of licensing the software ($8,000 for SimpList or ? for IPT), but it's still an ENORMOUS annual cost saving. And it's a very REAL cost saving; i.e. one that directly affects the bottom line. On top of that there's all the additional cost savings such as reduced training, reduced CPU, reduced storage, reduced printing, beating competitors to market, and much more (which by itself more than justifies the cost of the tool). The fact that some PHB's can't comprehend this simple math is astonishing. Maybe they could 'save' even more money by getting rid of ISPF and telling all the programmers to use raw TSO? ;-) Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:14:58 -0500 > From: john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > Subject: Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking > meltdown > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Maybe. But all we have here is TSO/ISPF/SDSF along with some CompuWare > products (Xpeditor and AbendAid mainly) to help us with development and > testing. If "we" could get away with it, we'd likely get rid of ISPF/SDSF > (not CompuWare, it is off maintenance and is perm licensed) to reduce costs. > We look only at cost. Not value. Not productivity. Cost only. That may loosen > up, depending of what SCOTUS says about Obamacare. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Salt > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:16 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led > > to banking meltdown > > > > > From: john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > > >I wonder if anybody has > > done a study of productivity between "old style" development > > using ISPF > > and edit-compile-test versus using the RD/z Eclipse based software. > > > > > > > Well if they did I hope they at least used SimpList or IPT > > instead of vanilla ISPF, otherwise they'd be painting the > > mainframe in a very unproductive and unfair light. > > > > Dave Salt > > > > SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! > > > > http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
