One point I have not seen mentioned is the cost of hardware maintenance. We had a 520 and 550 that we were able to replace with new Power8s for a little more then what we would have spent on 3 years of maintenance. We spent a bit more to get SSD, so it is a bit of apples to oranges. I guess the point is, if you look at what you pay for hardware for 3 years and then compare that to a new system, what is the difference? Can you justify spending the difference for much better performance? In the case of the 520, we were able to go from P20 to P10, which lowers the cost of SW and the OS. At some point with all hardware IBM raises the maintenance cost to a point that it makes financial sense to just get a newer system. We had a similar experience with 3590 tape to LTO. It is worth looking at your hardware maintenance as a forgotten cost of the TCO picture.
Gordon Searles
Lead Systems Engineer
Recreational Equipment, Inc (REI)
http://www.rei.com &
http://www.rei-outlet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Cagle
Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 7:27 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: new cume out for 7.1
I would be one of those - stuck on a i5 520. Boss won't spend the money to upgrade.
Thanks
Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Nelson
Good grief. Must be a whole lot of machines still out there that can't upgrade past 7.1
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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