Good point! The software costs might break the deal. Use that to send
those developers back to drawing board.
Roger
On 4/8/2015 5:11 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote:
I have not mined this thread meticulously, but I did not see mention of
software costs. If you upgrade your CEC, the ISV (V for vulture) folks will
descend upon you as in the Hitchcock movie and peck your corpse clean to the
bone. IBM will be there too with beak in motion.
The software costs of a hardware upgrade can be stunning, especially if the
bean counters budgeted only the hardware portion. Those additional costs live
on forever because the annual maintenance fees go up as well.
Which is to say that no matter how cheaply memory or storage can be obtained,
the cost of additional MIPS looms larger than it appears in the mirror.
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I think this nailed it! Clueless is also correct. It did start back in the 90's with
"disk space is cheap", then it went to "memory is cheap'
and now it's MIPS is a commodity, so is the manpower to maintain all that stuff.
It's all in the CLOUD now anyway - who cares!
Roger
On 4/8/2015 4:11 PM, Dave Barry wrote:
In the old paradigm, technology was managed by technologists. In the new
paradigm, technology is managed by accountants. Computer hardware and labor
costs wind up on different lines of the general ledger. They have different
budgetary constraints and are treated differently for tax purposes depending on
whether they are capitalized or expensed.
I've heard the new regime refer to MIPS as a commodity. Talk about clueless...!
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Can someone explain and rationalize for this new paradyne ?
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"cheaper to Upgrade the mainfame than to have the application programmers review
their code for performance oppurtunities".
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Im clueless . ??
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