Hi Allen

I was going to put in a plug for R too, but you beat me to the punch.

I like your graph, would it be too much to ask for you to explain your
charging scheme?  That is always a vexed issue particularly with those
managers who make unreasonable volume or retention demands, and giving them
what they want, but charging them what it really costs for the service is a
nice stick to be able to beat them with.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Brisbane, Australia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout
> Sent: Thursday, 29 December 2005 8:14 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Reporting tools
>
>
> >> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:43:38 -0600, Roger Deschner
> <rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU>
> >> said:
>
> R> A general-purpose statistical package is priceless, either
> instead of
> R> or in addition to the TSM-specific reporting tools. SPSS,
> SAS, or one
> R> of their competitors.
>
>
> >From the peanut gallery, I'll put in a plug for 'R'
>
> http://www.r-project.org/
>
> which is like S, except that it's free, and open-source.
>
>
> I've found it to be fantastic for graphing my TSM clients' behavior.
>
> http://open-systems.ufl.edu/reports/tsm/2004/erp/FIPRD-all.png
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
>
>
>