[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/27/2023 5:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/27/2023 4:31 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/27/2023 4:26 PM, bill wrote:
>>> On 2/27/2023 4:14 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 2/27/2023 1:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps "standardized environments" aren't so good for everyone?
>>>>
>>>> Custom is more expensive than standard.
>>>
>>> Didn't used to be.  That happened when they started paying someone
>>> outside of their own organization to do the work.
>>
>> Internal customization also cost.
> 
> That can vary.
> 
> If employees are hired to do the work, then yes.
> If existing employees do the work, and would be an employee regardless, 
> then not so much.

If the alternative to the employees doing this work was that they
were sitting idle at their desk reading news papers, then you can
say that there is no cost.

If they could do something other useful, then there is a cost. And
that is hopefully the most common case.

In theory the cost should be accounted as the value of the other work.
In practice it tend to just be calculated based on direct and
indirect cost of the employee.

Arne