Re: V5R1

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Mike:

On Fri, 01 February 2002, "Mike Shaw" wrote:

> If CAE V5R1 is no cost and the use of Mocha requires cash, how do you
> justify that to management with deep pockets and short arms??????????  :-)
> CAE wins in that model, right, wrong, or indifferent.

Given a Mocha site license cost of $250, it might be easy to justify if two 
assumptions can be demonstrated:

1) CAE has a large minimum installation requirement (30MB minimum?). Setup time 
can also be significant. If Mocha is small and needs less setup, a site license 
might pay for itself quickly.

2) CA in general can take significant ongoing maintenance effort. Mocha might 
take a number of workstations out of that picture.

With a good automated structure for installing, configuring and maintaining CA, 
some sites might never justify Mocha when many CA features are used. But simple 
emulation shouldn't need a 30MB footprint.

Further, there are numerous reasons why Mocha and CA might be installed on the 
same workstations. For example, Mocha could be a very handy 'hot backup' to CA 
emulation for those rare occasions when there are problems with host servers 
such as the *SIGNON server -- Mocha could continue to connect when CA would be 
locked out.

It's been a few years since I tried Mocha. Back then, I couldn't see it was 
worth the trouble. But I suspect it's much easier now given the range of 
compliments I've seen for it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it could be 
justified at many of the same sites already using CA.

Tom Liotta



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Kent, WA 98032
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