On Tuesday, 10/17/2006 at 11:34 CET, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Customers don't care about price per platform - they care about price per > transaction. Then they may lose out to their competitors in the long run. Add in people, power, and real estate, and you may find that one platform is actually cheaper to operate year-to-year than another. After taking an honest assessment of the COST (not price), go with whichever platform yields the biggest bang for the buck. (After all, your loyalty is to your own stockholders, not the vendors'!) The cost of acquisition is forgotten in the next fiscal quarter, the cost of doing business is forever. If folks just want to talk about "GHz per kilo" then there is no further discussion necessary and we can all go home. It's just math, not rocket science. (I wonder why people argue over such things. You'd think "IT" was the name of a new religion instead of a business expense.) Do the math. Then do what makes sense based on the math. Whatever it turns out to be. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
