On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:58:11 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...l.Unless I am misunderstanding the basic issue. I think IBM >is trying to force everyone into us using the web interface. No one, >IMO should be forced into that situation. The PC WEENIES have taken >over IBM and they (IMO) don't care about the rest of the world just >their new and improved web interface. ... Maybe. But I think there is a less uncharatable explaination. As I recall, for years IBM has been trying to get customer support off of their VM systems and to wean customer support off SNA. This has been in the works for many years; IBM may have believed the "death of the mainframe" doom-sayers back when plans were made. Web-access to distibuted servers may have sounded like reaonable solution back then. Since then they have demonstrated that their plans were woefully inadequate, but (I surmise) they had no plan-B. I would hope that there is now a plan-B (and hopefully a plan-C, just in case) but we won't know for a while. I suspect that they will be web-based just because the web is the nearly universal access medium now, but so what? If it works (unlike the current implementation) we get the service we expect/need. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
