Ed, No comment on the fact that Tom can "depreciate" that you are inconvenienced? <grin>
I find this whole discussion mildly amusing. There are reasons you buy new hardware and software. *Supposedly* you are getting "better business value" out of the new acquisitions that exceeds the existing business value of your current assets. Otherwise, why upgrade? The fact that assets have value that can be depreciated over time is nice for the financial types, but don't forget that once you have spent the money it is a sunk cost. Making business decisions based on sunk costs might "save face", but could be disastrous to the decision at hand. Just my $.02 (was a dollar, but has depreciated over 3-5 years) Bob Richards -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware Pinnacle wrote: > While I can depreciate the fact that Ed and Chris are inconvenienced > as software vendors from a support standpoint, most clients I deal > with find the 3-5 year depreciation cycle on IBM mainframes to be way > too short. I remember going to the IBM gripe, er, open discussion > session at SHARE a few years back where a number of government > customers were concerned about IBM shortening the life cycle of > mainframe hardware. Most of them had a 1-2 year procurement process > alone, which really put them behind the 8-ball by the time a decision > was made to purchase. That's one of the reasons that so many > government customers are not running the latest and greatest. Tom, I was there with you at that SHARE meeting. Bob Rogers and Mary Beth Bradley were fielding questions from angry customers for the entire session. That was a special (and especially bad) case and the customers had every right to be angry! snipped LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
