"Win their hearts and their minds and bodies will follow." And most of all their money.
--- "Bruce A. McKnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, IBM is making a foolish tactical blunder. > Apparently they've missed the obvious lessons that > Linux and Java have taught about freely available > software. If it were my "dog", I'd come up with a > limited-capacity version of z/OS that runs on > Windows and Linux systems, or even as a native Intel > operating system, and make it freely available. > Sure, it would cost quite a bit up front and you'd > have smaller businesses using it "illegally", but it > would help secure future generations of z/OSers. > Give it to the technical masses and the corporations > will follow suit because of the installed > intellectual base. IBM is making money from Linux > so it seems they already know this works. Scaling a > business-oriented OS like z/OS down and making price > competitive with other Intel OSes would give smaller > companies a broader choice. Most didn't make an > informed choice. They are using what they already > know. As they grow and their needs expand, it will > make it that much easier to > move into a mainframe-class machine down the road. > If all they have is Windows or Linux and grow > through server sprawl, what are they going to choose > when their server farm gets too large? It sure > won't be to a mainframe! It'll be to faster, denser > server boxes with TCO cost 2x of an equivalent > mainframe, but having no experience with a > mainframe, coupled with all the gloom and doom > pontifications about mainframes going away, they're > not even going to let the IBM sales rep in the door. > "Win their hearts and their minds and bodies will > follow." So simple, yet so overlooked.--- On Tue > 12/05, Pinnacle < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote:From: Pinnacle [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:43:27 > -0500Subject: Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based > Mainframe clones----- Original Message ----- From: > "Anne & Lynn Wheeler" Newsgroups: > bit.listserv.ibm-mainTo: Sent: Tuesday, December 05, > 2006 11:55 AMSubject: IBM sues maker of > Intel-based Mainframe clones>> IBM sues maker > of Intel-based Mainframe clones> > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BKMIXSNECXW0OQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=196601610>What > a chilling development, especially on the heels of > IBM's refusal to renew the FLEX-ES patent licenses. > Soon the z9 BC will be the only entry-level machine > available for commercial use. Unless IBM and PSI > reach a settlement, this lawsuit puts PSI out of > business (unless the venture capitalists can keep it > afloat for the 10 years it will take to decide the > patent lawsuit). What a mess. Any chance we'd ever > see a personal license for z/OS probably just > vanished.Regards,Tom Conley > ----------------------------------------------------------------------For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions,send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFOSearch the archives at > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
