RE: Scalability

Maybe a lot of it depends on where your development is going.  The shop 
with 120 iSeries and two iSeries personnel is probably doing a lot less 
iSeries development than Unix development if they have a small handful of 
unix machines and 4 Unix personnel.

Rob Berendt
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jones, John (US) wrote:

> To see how valid these claims about how much more expensive iSeries pros
> are than Unix pros, I ran the following.  The numbers are approximate
> for a large metropolitan area but should be fairly close based on what
> I've observed. Please feel free to adjust and comment.

Interesting numbers, but they all assume more unix pros are needed than 
iSeries pros.  Why would you make such an assumption?  All the numbers in 
the world showing how much more expensive unix guys are over iSeries guys 
are pointless if your initial assumption is wrong.  Indeed, in my shop and 

my customers' iSeries pros outnumber unix 2 to 1, yet in my shop unix 
machines outnumber iSeries 4 to 1.  My customers all have the same number 
of unix machines as iSeries.

James Rich

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