> With the possible exception of Universities? I'm thinking Leeds, UMRCC, ULCC in the UK.
Nyah. Nurdge. Grundle. ULCC would be my most likely admission. There were a very few (3 or 4) Amdahlers who were utterly _PASSIONATE_ supporters of the whole JANET and university networking thing, based down in the office (who's name I've forgotten) off J7 of the M25. Those guys were absolutely commited - they batted well above their average to integrate the Unis. Amdahl threw a few things into the mix. I'd have to say virtualisation - IBM got there first with VM, obviously, but MDF took the concept to a whole new commercial level and - ultimately - forced LPAR-level pricing. Commercially, and ostensibly trivially - Amdahl changed the European market and especially the UK market by not charging for reconfigurations above and beyond the actual field engineering cost. This was a discussion I was part of, in the Doubletree Inn just off 101. The core decision was - should reconfiguration within a customer's assets be a marketing or a service issue? We decided on service - so a customer who owned n processors could move them within the frames owned and pay only the CE time (hours) involved. At that time IBM charged $200,000 to open the doors. British Telecom, once advised of this policy, went _NUTS_. We called it "Lego bricks" - hardly a week went by without a request to take an engine out of box X and put it in box Y. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
