On 2-Jun-2005, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > guess who used to pay for ISPF development? it is an inside joke. > when every business operation had to show a profit ... a "strategic" > product that couldn't cover its own bills (customers would never pay > what was actually necessary to cover the run rate of the operation > doing the development) would be combined with some real profit making > product(s) ... so the overall business operation showed a profit. at > one point ISPF was frequently held up as a prime example.
Programmers are used to persuading our companies that they need to pay for projects that individual customers are not willing to pay for. If people in charge of making purchases of systems believe TSO is dead, then they will be more likely to go with systems that they perceive having a future. Which means IBM doesn't sell as many systems, and our skills have less value. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
