I doubt it. Someone on this very list -- Phil Payne, maybe? -- has pointed out that mainframe software margins are a large part of the total profit IBM rakes in.
Jon <snip> I suspect instead, it wants us to have huge, secure, database machines that are fast and use up less energy than Windows farms - and IBM doesn't care how we choose to display the data on our desktops. And it would be quite content if we dropped z/OS, as long as we use its hardware. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
