Amen to that. It has made the mainframe's great strength into a great weakness.
<snip> The fundamental problem is the whole concept of charging applications by system size in a multi-application system. Period. It's nonsense, and it's been nonsense since 1989. </snip> This has made life more and more difficult for us mainframers as the years have progressed. <snip> Charging for applications by the size of the system they just happen to run on eventually disqualifies all applications from multi-user systems. And that's the definition of a mainframe. </snip> Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
