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4 <br />additional .5 GB disk (this can be added in half GB <br />increments) to the P4655 would cost around $35,000. For an <br />additional $30,000 we could add another 1 GB of disk to the <br />P4055 to bring it up to its 2 GB maximum. <br />The 1989 plans were to eventually replace the MDCSC platform <br />with a large Prime and to upgrade the P4055 or to replace <br />both systems with one large Prime platform. The 1989 long <br />range, all Prime options, are still available. However, <br />through dramatic technology advances in the last two years, <br />UNIX has emerged as one of the preferred business operating <br />environments. Accordingly, neither all Prime solution is <br />the current option of choice. Based on Prime's current <br />prices, to add our second Prime platform and upgrade the <br />P4055 would cost in excess of $300,000. We would still be <br />looking at a proprietary (or Prime only) solution. With the <br />UNIX solution, the County has many more options from which to <br />choose. <br />3. New O Lions <br />I was influenced to explore our mainframe options not only by <br />changes in technology but also by the ever increasing <br />maintenance contract costs of our existing two platforms. <br />These now total more than $75,000 annually - $55,200 <br />for MDCSC and $20,380 for the Prime. I have been examining <br />solutions that could be financed largely by redirecting <br />planned future expenditures for maintenance to possible <br />hardware lease purchase payments. <br />In May, 1991, we mailed requests for proposals to a number <br />of vendors in an attempt to determine our current options. <br />The County received only two responses to the initial RFP. <br />We rejected those and mailed out the RFP again after <br />contacting several vendors. Once again, we received only two <br />valid responses - one from Infocel, our current longtime <br />vendor, and one from Computer Remarketing Corporation (CRC), <br />an Ultimate dealer and an IBM Business Partner from <br />Beachwood, Ohio. Either proposal would solve our problems <br />and both are very similar. Both are UNIX /PICK solutions, <br />both are based on the new Reduced Instruction Set Chip <br />(RISC), both propose the UNIVERSE /PICK solution and both <br />propose the UNIPLEX /E -Mail solution. <br />The major differences are that Infocel proposes a dual Prime <br />UNIX platform, total Ethernet solution, while CRC proposes a <br />single IBM UNIX platform with mixed asynchronous /Ethernet <br />solution. Another difference is in the type of conversion <br />