-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seems like IBM would put a few summer interns to work writing > conversions GUIs showing the conversion balloon. In many cases, the replacement hardware/software also comes from IBM (pseries/AIX/Shark/DS4000 in our case). Why in the world would IBM want to warn customers in advance how much it's going to cost to get rid of the "expensive mainframe", when they stand to make far more as the customer keeps rolling in more "cheap servers"? <SNIP> In the case that I quoted (former customer of mine), IBM sold them on moving to the z/800 to facilitate the migration to Siebel. Then included in that were the services to migrate to z/OS, the services to implement Siebel. Then when IBM and Siebel failed, they brought in yet another company that was going to do this by offshoring(!!!!). IBM laughed all the way to the bank with the amount of excess hardware that went into that shop. And when they tried to sell the excess hardware, it was only worth about 20 cents on the dollar -- mind you, the equipment was 1-3 years old at that point (depending on which item/box). It would seem to me that this kind of behavior is predatory by IBM. But hey, I'm not an attorney, so what could I possibly know? Regards, Steve Thompson Opinions by this poster are not necessarily those of poster's employer, and should in no case be accepted as such. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
