> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator > > I understood the "when customer does not have a choice" in a > completely > different way. ( but then english is not my native language) > > In this particular case or thread , I understood that it meant > "a customer who cannot avoid being a z/OS customer" ( because he has a > trillion z/os applications that would need 20 years to move > onto another > platform. > Or because he has only cobol programmers or whatever > expensive reason. > The idea being that for these customers, the prices can be > kept artificially > high on whatever run on GP processors because IBM does not > sell or rent z/OS > on other platforms than IBM mainframe. > my 0.99 euros :) > > Bruno Sugliani > zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr
Well, customers always have a choice. But not necessarily any desirable ones. A few years ago, our then-management was in a mode of "replace all systems with Wintel". We had a software vendor who swore on the <insert religious book of choice> that they had a way to replace __all__ of our z/OS programs (COBOL, assembler, EasyTrieve Plus, JCL, REXX, ... - batch and CICS) with equivalent .NET based applications. And, they also averred (word of the day!) that the cost would be less than keeping the current z-based applications. -- 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 [email protected] * 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
