> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBMLink SEV1 Ticket 32927263 ETA 12:20PM > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:38:43 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: > > > >Yeah, yeah...there have been some constructive ideas too! > Think what gets > >everybody's goat is that they broke their word about IBMLINK > and availability > >and pulled the plug before it was stable. In a commercial > world if we did > >something like that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse > would descend on our > >cubicles. They got bad design or bad software and there just > ain't enough > >tergiversates in the world to remedy the problem.... > > > Are you suggesting that IBM is not a commercial concern? > > The second source problem. > > There is always the hazard of becoming so enthralled to a supplier, > be it IBM, Microsoft, or other, that one can not mount a plausible > threat of taking ones custom elsewhere. > > -- gil
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