> From: john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > Hum, we have 4 programmers here.
Instead of programmers I should have said ISPF users. This includes developers, sysprogs, analysts, end-users, DBA's, help desk (etc). If this still means there's only 4 people at your company that would use SimpList or IPT then obviously the savings wouldn't be as high. But, it would still be worth it. If it costs $50 an hour to employee an ISPF user (which is a pretty low estimate considering salary and benefits and premises etc) then a 10% improvement in productivity would save the company about $10,000 per year per user. Given that the annual license fee for SimpList is only $8,000 (regardless of the number of users or number of LPAR's), this means even a single user would result in savings for the company. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:06:46 -0500 > From: john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > Subject: Re: Real cost savings (was: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's > blunder led to banking meltdown) > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Salt > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:20 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Real cost savings (was: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech > > operative's blunder led to banking meltdown) > > > > 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). > > Hum, we have 4 programmers here. I don't know their real working hours. But I > doubt we could do with less. People do insist on sleep and vacations. > > > > > 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? ;-) > > > > Naw, as Marie Antoinette said: "Let them use vi!". You might be amazed (or > disgusted, or sickened) at the stuff that I do on a z/OS UNIX shell prompt > (via ssh, not TSO OMVS). I won't say more because: (1) I know it wouldn't > work, and (2) last time I did, I got jumped all over for being a contemptible > fool. > > Or perhaps I could see if the RPF used under MVS by the Hercules/390 users > would work on z/OS 1.12. At one time, I remember having a 3270 full screen > editor called FSE which worked. And I'd see if there is a Q command for z/OS > 1.12 (from CBT). > > > Dave Salt > > -- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
