I'm with you, Shane. I can tell already that the wrong people at IBM are listening.
It doesn't matter what marketing types say, just what executive management does. Tom Moulder -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 21:58 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: > As far as the mainframe skills shortage goes, I > can only conclude that IBM's refusal to make z/OS affordable for people to > run on their own hardware (like a PC) means that the only ones left with > enough wherewithal to employ and train mainframers will be IBM Global > Services. Sounds like a plan to me. Two dummy spits in a few days Tom ... Mate, you've gotta calm down some. And then we've also got CC at his conciliatory best. Wonder if IBM is listening - wouldn't be betting on it myself. Shane ... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.25/745 - Release Date: 4/3/2007 12:48 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

