>IBM's software charging schemes are inherently business-unfriendly. I could/did have told you that in 1985. As a capacity analyst, I told them that when they introduced tiered pricing. This has screwed up the mainframe pricing model for 20 years! The cost/butt is still better than the *NIX world, and much better than the WINTEL.
But, too many airline magazines have shown the alternate platforms to be better. And, IBM has done everything they coukld to reflect the M/F in the worst possible light. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
