When i was a product manager there I was told that when we wanted to sell something the selling price should deliver at least 10 times more than cost.
Less than that they were not interested. We are not in the fingers and toes business I was told. That was 30 years ago. They have been going downhill ever since I left. Þann mán., 12. apr. 2021, 18:25 'Rodney Nicholson' via Chat skrifaði < c...@jsoftware.com>: > “ 13 layers of managers.” > > The explanation of their survival is, I believe, their huge profit > margins. > > I still recall when they got a contract to electronically handle the > Toronto Stock Exchange trading system where they charged $18 per > transaction. Their cost of course was just a few electrons per transaction. > > They were in effect a monopoly at the time. And monopolies always waste > huge quantities of resources, accordingly reducing everone’s living > standards. > > Rodney. > > > > On Apr 12, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > apl lives on even if ibm goes away. > > > > it is really amazing that ibm is still around. > > > > 13 layers of managers. > > > > Þann mán., 12. apr. 2021, 13:51 Raul Miller skrifaði < > rauldmil...@gmail.com > >> : > > > >> That's disappointing. > >> > >> Not surprising -- just disappointing. > >> > >> Still, there's J, there's Dyalog APL, there's GNU APL, and there's k > and q. > >> > >> Not to mention various hardware array concepts, such as greenarrays and > >> gpus. > >> > >> And, maybe, IBM will go back up at some point? > >> > >> Who knows... > >> > >> -- > >> Raul > >> > >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:05 AM Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apl2-whats-new > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
