----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel C. Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: STROBE Layoffs
It's been several years now since we had to toss Strobe for cheaper
alternatives. Compuware was way too slow to recognize their pricing
structures were totally out of line with the falling $/MSU prices in
mainframe hardware and with competition with other platforms and priced
themselves out of our market.
An ISV that provides useful but non-essential software can't consistently
price their products as the most expensive ISV products in the shop and
not expect to draw the attention of cost-conscious upper management whose
first question will always be "Do we really need this?".
exactly correct, compuware thought they were god's gift to the world and as
you indicated so elegantly, for non-essential software, and failed to
recognize that both technical groups and management at many companies didn't
hold that opinion of them.
compuware has no one to blame but themselves. I feel sorry for the people,
but not for the company.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
