Well stated John. As the Brits are not party to the Euro, their prices are different to the rest of Europe (and not being physically attached to 'Europe', why should the Brits adopt European ways anyway - we could discuss that issue for days!). I recall back in the 70s being able to buy 3330 disks in the US for my company (a British bank) and saving £60,000 ($90K in today's US money) on the deal, even after buying the different power power supplies. The IBM salesman was not best pleased. ALH
-----Original Message----- From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 1:07 pm Subject: Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS Radoslaw Skorupka's point that EMEA prices are higher than American nd British ones is true in general, although there are some few of xceptions. They are said to reflect real differences in the costs of doing usiness in different regions. They are fixed locally by local anagements, who do of course have ontribution-to-margin/profitability targets to meet; and these argets are not set locally. --jg On 1/24/12, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: W dniu 2012-01-24 17:10, John Gilmore pisze: > Indeed. EMEA prices are in general different from American prices. Yes, EMEA prices are higher. Have always been higher. CICS (made in UK), or U.S. made software - doesn't matter. And yes, I don't like it. BTW: Have you ever seen about discounts for MLC software? (hint: I know about such cases). Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland tej wiadomo ci mo e zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wy cznie do u ytku s bowego adresata. Odbiorc e by jedynie jej adresat z wy czeniem dost pu os b trzecich. Je eli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomo ci lub pracownikiem upowa nionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dzia anie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i mo e by karalne. Je eli otrzyma wiadomo omy kowo, prosimy niezw ocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysy c odpowied oraz trwale usun wiadomo czaj c w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: [email protected] d Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru S dowego, nr rejestru przedsi biorc w KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. ug stanu na dzie 01.01.2012 r. kapita zak adowy BRE Banku SA (w ca ci wp acony) wynosi 168.410.984 z otych. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN - ohn Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
