factors that make software pricing very difficult. We must remember that
mainframe software is not a mass market situation like PC software. The growth
of mainframe processing power in recent years has been nonlinear.
The relative power needed to run a traditional mainframe application (a batch job
written in COBOL, for example) does not have a linear relation to the power
needed for a new application (with a GUI interface, written in C or Java). The
consolidation effect has produced very powerful mainframes. These might need
1% of their power to run an application, but the application vendor ...
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