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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
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> > If PWD doesn't provide you with what you need, then you have someone
to
> > hear your concerns. Someone who is tasked with addressing your
concerns,
> > even if the answer is "No" or "Not at this time."
>
> And this is the problem at this time. A friend who *had* a
> licensed PWD Thinkpad/Flex system found that her license
> expired and now she can't even IPL the system. And the least
> expensive "remote" option is many more dollars than she can
> afford, and many, many more dollars than the FLEX solution.
>
> IBM is shutting out the small ISV community entirely, and PWD
> *will not* address it. That's why there is so much noise
> about it, no one can get a reasonable answer from PWD.
Indeed, some recent TV commercials for a US bank touting small-business
loans appears to depict the situation rather succinctly.........
-jc-
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