In a message dated 5/28/2005 12:36:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hardware and software... they aren't spending any money! Why would anyone go to that amount of trouble when there's no revenue in it anyway? Charity? >> Politics, delivery schedules, security. Sometime during one of our DB/2 conversions, somebody said "Why don't we just stand pat and wait for SCO to mature." The consultant, said one large Asian bank had tried that and are now paying $2M per month for back level DB/2 support. We went forward with the conversion! Pretty much the same thing for Bipolar to CMOS conversion. etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
