"If you do a total cost of ownership, the mainframe comes out cheaper, but
since the costs of a mainframe are immediately obvious, it is hard to get it
past the bean-counters of an organization."
Funny, I said essentially the same thing to someone at hp about mpe. The
recipient's eyes flew open like I had said the most amazing thing ever
heard. I'm not a "bean counter" but it was sooooo obvious that this was the
case...and yet this had never occurred to this very well-educated hp'er
<sigh><alas>
But anyhow...tis true -- it can be very very hard to replace legacy apps
(for a multitude of reasons) and some people just can't/won't get that.
- d
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Allegro Consultants, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Tracy Johnson
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 8:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Workers Chances Improving?
>
> >From Slashdot last night. Presume the hidden cost of letting HP3000
> workers go way back may also apply here.
>
> (I think the original poster should have put 'not' before
> 'immediately'.)
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce |
> | from the come-back-so-we-can-fire-you-again dept. |
> | posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 10, @18:22 (Businesses) |
> | http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/10/200204 |
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> [0]itwbennett writes "Businesses that cut experienced mainframe
> administrators in an effort to cut costs inadvertently created a skills
> shortage that is coming back to bite them. Chris O'Malley, CA's
> mainframe business executive VP, says that mainframe workers were let
> go
> because 'it had no immediate effect and the organizations didn't expect
> to keep mainframes around.' But businesses have kept mainframes around
> and now they are [1]struggling to find engineers. Prycroft Six managing
> director Greg Price, a mainframe veteran of some 45 years, put it this
> way: 'Mainframes are expensive, ergo businesses want to go to cheaper
> platforms, but [those platforms] have a lot of packaged overheads. If
> you do a total cost of ownership, the mainframe comes out cheaper, but
> since the costs of a mainframe are immediately obvious, it is hard to
> get it past the bean-counters of an organization.'"
>
> Discuss this story at:
> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/07/10/200204
>
> Links:
> 0. http://www.itworld.com/
> 1. http://www.itworld.com/%5Bprimary-term%
> 5D/70886/retired-mainframe-pros-lured-back-workforce
>
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