I hate my "mushroom"* status. The old price we "doubled" from was a 7-month pro-rated price to align us with our new fiscal year, which means the price we rejected was a 58% discount over last year.
* (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Conway, Timothy Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM IBM just doubled our maintenance, so we're getting rid of TSM wholesale and rearchitecting all pending IBM purchases for other platforms. I had made and won the case for keeping it as our solution despite the expense, at the level we were at through 2007, but there's no discussion for this change. I can't show an instantaneous doubling of the value derived. An economic downturn is not the time to try to double your margin on an existing product and customer base. Any suggestions? 73, Tim Conway Unix sysadmin, TSM admin Swift & Company 9705067998 [email protected]
