John Cassidy wrote:
Call it a sea-change or whatever, I cannot see things improving, despite
IBM's University initiative etc. - too late. SUN have been there (The
uni's) years before IBM.
IBM can't possibly compete in the university environment until they
change their ways.
We have a site license for Solaris which makes it almost free for as
many Sun servers as we want. And we can use the software to run our
administrative systems (Human Resources, Student Information System,
Financials, etc.). No restrictions on what we can use the software
for. Sun also gives us huge discounts on hardware.
IBM gives us the standard 15% educational discount on software. And we
go out for bid on hardware and take our chances like every other
customer. IBM has programs for Higher Education ... like SzAU (or
something like that) and HESC (no longer available) but they require
that we ONLY use the software for instructional or research purposes.
If we run administrative workload on that software, we pay commercial
prices less the standard 15% educational discount.
And they wonder why they keep losing to our 120-server (and growing) farm???
What's-his-name keeps harping about IBM's new programs for education and
such, but they still haven't changed the one thing that keeps shooting
them in the foot. Clueless!
--Stephen
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