Around here, this is another nail in the z/OS coffin. My manager is trying to get price reductions from our current software vendors. His plea is "give us an execute-only, no-support contract at a reduced price". Basically we are being "stabilized" at our current levels. IT management has been told, unconditionally, to reduce the budget. _Whatever it takes_! If we can't do it any other way, more layoffs _will_ be the answer. We have a bare minimum staff already.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: > On 09/09/2013 10:08 AM, David Andrews wrote: > > I see that in January the price for COBOL V3 and V4 will be raised to > > equal V5. So there's one reason not to upgrade that no longer exists. > > > Just a radical thought... > From users' standpoint IBM could have achieved an even better impetus > for migration by making V5 cheaper than V3 and V4, to compensate for > installation migration costs and the likelihood that in some shops > higher compile costs during program development will exceed > execution-time savings from better object code optimization. > > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
