Cost Justifications

["Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to do some cost justifications that will convince the owners to
discard this Model 250 and upgrade to a better System i.  One has to bear in
mind that, when I started here (first week of January), every application
program was written in RPG II and all application files were "flat" files.
Plus one owner uses a dumb terminal and the other one doesn't access the
system.  The "network" was built by one owner's son (who is quite good with
PCs).  Heck, I recently had to install SQL Development Kit and Query/400
(for which they had already paid), but the fact that I was able to build a
simple report using SELECTs, instead of a gazillion logicals, is not the
kind of thing that impresses or motivates them; bottom line does.

 

I read an article this morning about the energy cost savings of a Power7
machine, but no actual figures were given.  Reminded me of a controller I
worked for years ago who justified moving from a 5362 (Baby/36) to the Model
236 (first RISC box) based solely upon the utility bill savings.  I'm
looking for that kind of thing (things I can put into a spreadsheet, if you
will), but cannot seem to find any links or reports that I can use to
quantify the benefits in dollars and cents.  If anyone has or knows of links
with this kind of stuff, I would appreciate receiving them.  

 

Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and
reason as fear. -Edmund Burke

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