RE: AS/400 .vs. NT

Jim,

Sorry, but I must disagree. It is true that you pay $500 for the dumb
terminal and $700 for the PC, but why are you upgrading the PCs? Why are you
buying Office, why are you adding more memory, why are you adding new
drivers?

These costs are not required costs if you are using the PC for nothing but
green-screen emulation. If you need the features provided by Office and new
versions of the OS then you are using the PC for more than you are using the
green screen for and the comparison is no longer valid. 

JMTCW,
-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:42 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: AS/400 .vs. NT



I buy a dumb terminal for $500, and that's what it costs me for years,
until
it breaks down or gets too faint to read.

I buy a PC for $700 or $800 and it costs me a lot more than that over
the
years.  I have to buy Office for it, I have to upgrade the OS, I have to
spend
time to get the right drivers for it, I have to go fix it when it
mysteriously
doesn't
work anymore, I have to set up maintenance on it since the users never
do,
I have to upgrade the memory, HD, CPU, etc, etc...

That $700/$800 PC costs a LOT more than a dumb tube.  True cost of
ownership on a PC is relatively high.

There are places, though, where a PC is required, where a dumb tube just

won't do.  Eventually, though, all our dumb tubes will be going PCs, and
at that
point I don't think we're going to be able to cope as a one person MIS
department anymore, bringing the cost of ownership even higher.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Alan Campin wrote:

> <SNIP>
> As to fairly expensive, you buy a PC workstation for $700.00 and
$800.00
> with a 64MB of memory, fast hard drive, good video and a 400 or 450
> processor and we buy refurbish to get even a better price. PC are
getting
> incredibly cheap.

<SNIP>




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