[email protected] (Phil Smith III) writes: > So it's not quite as clear from the beancounter side of the street, > since those last are impossible to quantify. > > But since both Timothy (on IBM-MAIN) and Alan (on IBMVM) have stated > that there is no official statement of direction, then the good news > is that it's not even a rumor at this point -- it's fiction. What we > need to worry about is it becoming reality down the road.
problem is that bean counting frequently has 3month horizon ... which is easy to quantify ... the impossible part is trying to extend past the quarterly horizon .... and it may have to constantly be repeated with every new generation of bean counters. HONE had a re-accuring problem for at least a decade ... somebody from the branch would be promoted to DP hdqtrs that included HONE organization. At some point the branch person would become aware that HONE was not MVS (but virtual machine based) ... and decide that their mark on the corporation would be made by moving HONE of the VM platform to MVS. They then would direct the HONE organization to port everything to MVS ... it might take a year before there was enough evidence (for upper executives) that it wasn't practical for HONE to operate on MVS platform ... and then the HONE organization would return to their normal duties for a couple months until the executive was promoted and somebody new came in to repeat the process. -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
