If you think being an ISV is wildly profitable, may I suggest you get into the business? It would have two benefits:
1. You will become rich. 2. Your competition in the marketplace will lower the costs of software for all. BTW, you won't charge by CPU size, right? So people with FLEX boxes will pay the same as Bank of America? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...) happened to IBM's deep discounts for educational institutions? Why do ISV's think they need to recover all their development costs in the first year of a new package's availability? Why do they think that a machine upgrade is just so their software gets more service AND USAGE? Just going to a bigger machine does NOT mean that I will use YOUR software any more? ISV's, let's get back to reality; as Robin Williams once said, "It's a helluve concept!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
