On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:41:21 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: >But with all that said, I and many others sadly recognize that some >customers (the "consumer" kind) are leaving the mainframe. Their IT >needs are shrinking, not growing, and it has become painfully evident >to both sides that the time has come for a parting of the ways. The >capacity and qualities of service aren't needed, and there aren't >enough servers to worry about consolidation. If they have benefitted >from their relationship with IBM in prior years, hopefully they will >remain partnered with us. Some won't. That's "just business", too. >But we'll miss them anyway and wish them success.
Thank you for your well reasoned response, Alan. On this point, though, I disagree. Customers are not leaving the mainframe because theit IT needs are shrinking, unless by "shrinking" you mean growing at a slower rate than the growth of computing technology. The shrinking of the mainframe customer base is a cause for real concern. Every time a customer leaves the mainframe it hurts us all. I don't have a clue how many installations license MVS today, but the hurt when the user base loses one of 30,000 customers is nowhere near as bad as it will be if we get to where there are only ten left and we lose one. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
