David Day says > I am the first one to admit that IBM has made some monumental blunders > vis-a-vis mainframes and the market place. But to state that they are > deliberately and intentionally doing anything to harm the market is > ludicrous.
I don't think anyone really believes they are intentionally killing the market, but there is very real cause for concern. The issue is economics. The entire market for mainframes has shrunk drastically over the last few years and if you were to look at a graph of the distribution of customers and meaningless indications of speed thingies, you would find them overwhelmingly weighted toward the high end. Smaller number of customers and smaller number of choices (both software and hardware) means inevitable high prices and sooner or later, market death. Killing off the smaller ISVs - even unintentionally - is a big step on the road to killing off the ecosystem that sustains the platform. QED. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
