"Eric H. Sand" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>That may even be an understatement...14 years ago when I was the MIS manager
>at the Monterey County Office of Education, I entertained my counterpart
>from another county in California(the county shall remain un-named) and when
>we compared resources, he rather proudly indicated his IBM mainframe shop
>required 29 personnel to support at a cost of $3.7 million/yr, but he was
>having one problem, after two years his out-sourced payroll system($200K)
>still wasn't running correctly. Mind you his application responsibilities
>were the same as mine, AP, AR, GL, Payroll and other minor supporting
>software. I had a staff of four including myself, two programmers, and an
>operator and my budget was $365K/yr and that included capital outlays for a
>new printer and disc. Since my application systems were in the public domain
>and my labor distribution balanced to the penny, I offered to send him a
>store tape with everything on it...gratis. Never did hear back from him....

What is the current computing platform (and budget) for the Monterey County
Office of Education?  Regardless of the answer, this is a great hp3000 story.

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