> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:23 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator > > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:04:43 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: <snip> > > IMO, the best possible outcome of this would be if it caused > IBM to revamp > its software pricing policies, drastically reducing prices > and ensuring that > they would not continue to increase as processors become > faster. It would > be quite painful to IBM and other software vendors at first. The net > result, I believe, would be a halt to the loss of mainframe > customers and > new customers coming to the platform.
I agree. But this violates a management mantra: "Milk the cash stream for immediate profit!!" Remember the story of the goose who laid the golden egg. Management is that farmer. I firmly believe that Linux on z, i, Intel, ... is the future. If you want support, you pay for it. If you want changes to FOSS software, you can pay for it or hope somebody decides to do it for you "for free". If you want custom programming, you pay for it. If you want "no cost" software, then there are the "community support" forums. Take your pick. If I were an SMB, then Linux would be my stated preferred OS. And FOSS software, perhaps with a support contract, would be my preferred environment. z/OS? Forget it. OK for "large" customers, too expensive for SMBs. Windows? Too expensive, too buggy, too insecure, too much DRM and vendor lock-in. iSeries is impressive, but you're locked into IBM too much. pSeries? Well, good hardware, but I'd likely run Linux on it and not AIX. > > -- > Tom Marchant -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
