Tom I really should let Phil speak for himself but the poor guy has already tried to sign off and take a break.
In his post of "Fri 22 Dec 2006 12:58" he says <quote> With a gross margin on mainframe software around 85%, surely IBM would fall over its own feet if another supplier were to promote z/Architecture in a credible way to new accounts and expand the zArchitecture installed base. T'ain't the way. Right from the beginning, the PCM industry concentrated on "intercept selling". Find someone about to buy an IBM box, and try and slip one of ours in under the IBM price. </quote> Thanks for the analysis and the "what if" which I've "snipped out" below. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Moulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 23 December, 2006 7:42 AM Subject: Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones > ... > > I have been in the software business and it is a lucrative business. It > makes me wonder why IBM would not want more machines in the marketplace > running "z" software so these numbers would look even bigger. > > Tom Moulder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
