RE: AS/400

Well, the interactive feature for an 820 in the P20 group is over $150,000.
(Unless there's some discount further down the line.)  So they'd probably
break-even as soon as it was implemented.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Peter Dow
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:28 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: AS/400
>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
> > What is great cost?  100K or 200K (less if you grow some in-house
> expertise)
> > and a couple of months of time to convert your existing applications, or
> > millions of dollars and years of effort (not to mention ongoing
> costs such
> > as debugging and retraining) to move them to a new platform that is less
> > reliable and less secure?
>
> How does that compare to IBM's interactive surcharge? How long
> would it take
> a company to save 100-200K by using your method vs paying IBM?
>
> Regards,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
>
>
>
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