Some die-hards just have to keep kicking the same dead horse :-) At the height of our OV days at USAir, we had over 8100 registered OV users who were managed by 2 part time administrators. At any given time, only one part time administrator was needed; we had two to cover vacations, illness, etc. Your memory is still good
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:47 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Alan Ackerman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "The typical organization > > might have one technician for every two or three users." > > > > Hunh? When was this ever true? > > In their dreams... unless you consider the gang of "advanced > Windows users" to be their own engineers because they spend a > fair amount of their time keeping their workstation (and that > of their colleagues) running. > From what I remember of a PROFS-based office environment, > this would be at least 2 orders of magnitude off... > > But so all threads on our mailing list lead to the same... Imagine > such a packed system programmer terminal room; you would > *have* to agree on standards for XEDIT so that they don't go > "Excuse me, is this your prefix area or mine?" > > Rob (it's Friday again) >
