The Office Information System described in the Appendix is an application that automates the support division of a large company. The units involved include a typing pool, copy center, print shop, and graphic arts department. Other projects are being developed in the IS Department that will cost approximately $2.4 million per year and an additional $1.5 million in operating expenses. The proposed budget for the OIS is $200,000 for a Cobol, mainframe application using a DBMS to store the data. Is this a reasonable amount? Develop one to three alternatives that are more financially attractive. One of the alternatives might be on the mainframe but can use different resources; at least one alternative should use different technology. Who should develop the application? Under what circumstances would you recommend to do/not do the application?

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Yes it is a reasonable amount of money because the company is already making a huge investment in the IS Information System department with an amount of 24 million and an additional 15 million in oper... View the full answer