It is funny that they should close it down... Why don't they sell it to A.S.G. They seem to be building a business on all the software that no-one else wants (to support... that is)
Regards Herbie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Marshall Sent: 05 September 2007 12:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: STROBE Layoffs >Compuware is closing the Strobe development office in Cambridge, MA, >effective October 30. All but four developers will be terminated. The >surviving four will work from home and development will move to Detroit >(where there is no one who knows the product). Testing, QA, etc. will >also be terminated. There will be no severance package. > Some have never been able to afford the product and therefore can not say this is such a bad thing. I have tried to get the price lowered three times to something reasonable. The first case it would be $435K for on an IBM 9672 which only cost me $800K. The cheaper alternative was to upgrade the machine to a z900-101 which also cost me a bit less than $800K. The second time the price had not changed, and recently for it was still well over $350K for just a z900-101. I kept pointing out that if I would have become a customer back in 2001, they would have been getting recurring revenue. Their strategy is to get the most money up front and go lean in the out years. My SYSPROG shop has 15 Compuware contractors (great folks) and it did not give me any kind of discount or some incentive to cut me some kind of reasonable deal. So maybe this is for the best in long haul for the industry. I doubt if this will change any pricing policy until the company is bought out or goes down in flames. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele (USA), John Collins, Terrance Dolan (USA), Pamela Joseph (USA), Declan Lynch, John McNally, Malcolm Towlson Elavon Financial Services Limited, trading as Elavon, is regulated by the Financial Regulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
