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To: Amy J who wrote (83756)6/21/1999 7:34:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Amy, Re: Tony's Big Iron Vision Msg#'s 83921 and 83799

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When it come to Big Iron technical stuff, Tony (and John) really know his stuff - as he should - he's been working in that area for nearly 30 years (and John maybe even longer).

Therein is the problem. The S390 is really a S360 from the 1960's only now it's much bigger, faster, and much more complex. CIO's have really had no alternative. They are (still) mostly a captive market. Some of the CIO's love it - like the Stockholm syndrome where the captives, after awhile, begin to love their captors.

A lot of CIO's would love an alternative. Something architecturally more coherent, more modern, and comforming more to an open standard.

As for cost effectiveness, Tony uses the bogus statistic that it cost less for S390 sys admin citing $2000 per seat versus $8000 per seat for Wintel.

That is because most of Wintel networks (currently) have less than 100 seats and many (if not most) of the S390's serves thousands.

But that will change.

Mary
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