Most businesses and even governments are run primarily to benefit the people who own them in fact rather than in theory. All else is rhetoric, legalese, obfuscation, and legerdemain. If I owned a billion-dollar organization, I would do precisely the same.
Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Rational Developer for System z ... It is business as usual. IBM has always repudiated the notion that it is an eleemosynary organization. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

