Outsourcing v Inhouse

["Blair Steve (Central Services)" <sblair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there I wonder if anyone has recently done an exercise to argue against
Outsourcing AS/400's  and keep it inhouse eg a management summary

regards

Steve Blair

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bipes [SMTP:rpg@cross-check.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:43 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Correlating *SAVF "records" to FTP job I/O count
> 
> Well it is telling you that to get to the remote system you have to pass
> thru 4 routers.  Each has a different link of different speeds.  Data
> transfer depends on the speed of the slowest link and how heavy the
> traffic
> is on all the networks in between.  You will never be able to get the high
> thru put that Patrick did on his machines.
> 
> Christopher K. Bipes   mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
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> If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bale, Dan [mailto:DBale@lear.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 12:02 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Correlating *SAVF "records" to FTP job I/O count
> 
> 
> (Patrick, also see my earlier reply to Rob)
> 
> O.k., so I do a tracert from my PC to the remote 400 in question and get:
> 
> Tracing route to as400.xxxxxxxx.xxxx.com [xx.x.xx.xx] over a maximum of 30
> hops:
>     1    10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  xx.x.xx.x
>     2    10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  xx.x.xxx.xxx
>     3   100 ms   100 ms    40 ms  xx.x.xxx.x
>     4    60 ms   130 ms    50 ms  xx.x.xx.x
>     5    70 ms   180 ms    70 ms  xxxxxxx.xxxx.com [xx.x.xx.xx]
> Trace complete. 
> 
> I'm not sure what this is telling me.
> 
> TIA,
> Dan Bale
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