There's at least one CIO who met with his system programmers and said, closely paraphrasing, that if they'd like they could keep their favorite Product X. However, if they did, he'd like the names of Y people in their department for immediate termination. In the alternative, they could switch to functionally equivalent (or even perhaps functionally superior) Product Z and spend less, including the bit of migration and training costs.
The X, Y, and Zs vary. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
