Shimon,
You are, of course, correct. However, the potential big resource
consumer is not the installation but the ongoing support. No one in
Endicott is sufficiently fluent in the internals of modern plumbing to
support it and bringing even a few people up to speed is, I believe, beyond
what upper management is willing to devote to Pipelines without, as I said
earlier, a compelling business case for doing so.
Marty
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Martin Zimelis
Principal
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> > This topic has been discussed repeatedly over the years.
> IBM -- and
> >rightly, IMHO -- insists that you/we (the VM community) make
> a business case
> >for the time and effort it would take to integrate and then
> support the
> >"download distribution" version of Pipelines in CMS.
> >
>
> Yes, it has been discussed, but something still
> looks fishy to me. If the 'end-user' sysprog can
> download and install the Internet version in an
> hour (and I think I am being VERY generous with
> that time allotment), how many minutes would it
> take a guru in Endicott to do the same, so that
> it would come with the starter system?
>
> Shimon
>
