On 01/02/2013, at 4:53 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/31/2013 9:37 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: >> One programmer, who has roughed out a system, using VSAM or DB2, has, for >> the sake of argument, 2-3 man years of coding to do with debugging. So we >> will say 3 to include documenting and testing. >> >> US$500 * 12 * 3 = US$19,500 Just for the system out of Dallas. > > Having paid many tens of thousands of $ in my younger days on a > per-CPU-second basis for time-sharing to develop my software ideas, a flat > $500/month for multiple developers using a fully-supported, private z/OS > system with the latest hardware, an exhaustive software stack, and expert > technical support seems pretty darn reasonable to me! > > By comparison, an MSDN Visual Studio Ultimate subscription from Microsoft is > $13K + $5K/year PER DEVELOPER, doesn't include hardware or system > configuration expertise, and provides only four tech support incidents per > year. > > -- Ultimate comes with access to azure and a whole plethora of cloud based services. Seems like good value to me. Especially when compared to RD/z. > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
