With respect to VPL access being removed Ed said; > >... > >This is UNBELIEVABLE!
And Pat said > No. Unfortunately, it IS believable. A study of just about any Dilbert > comic strip should help explain it. Yeah pretty much. The bean counters and marketers run the industry. > >... The usage for VPL is very low. How often do you use VPL? Any > >details you can provide me will be very helpful in building a case for > >it. ... > > We don't use VPL at our shop. I guess that supports the contention > that you don't need it. Availability of fire extinguishers is being > discontinued. How often do you use a fire extinguisher? As you point out with fire extinguishers, frequency of use has nothing at all to do with value. Fire extinguishers and insurance policies are things that come to mind. Vendors like us depend on VPL at worst to avoid crashing customer systems, and at best to deliver useful new product functionality that works correctly in your environment. We don't need to be leering at it every day, but when you need it... This is one of those classic Dilbert moments where you just KNOW there's some pointy haired bozo somewhere inside IBM thinking he's just pulled off a major cost saving coup. The worst of it is that the same knucklehead will probably get promoted and be out of that position before the fecal matter strikes the revolving air movement device. Grrrrrrr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
