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OCR: SMS TRANSITIONAL OUTSOURCING MODEL Existing IS budget Transitional budget . "Rightsizing" funding Declining mainframe expenses Figure 2. According to Software Maintenance Specialists' transitional outsoure- ing model, the shift to a client-server environment, for example, should quickly produce cost savings, due in part to shrinking mainframe expenses. In this sce- nario, the customer and the outsourcing service provider must agree on a pric- ing scheme that closely corresponds to the customer's business cycles as opposed to using a static cost model,