Someone Wrote... I just lost track... > S/390-based technology is critical to the functioning of our society. IBM > does not have the right to keep society-critical technology secret, nor to > hold society to ransom by preventing competitors from producing compatible > systems.
I don't think there are any guarantees anyway... If IBM / Microsoft file for bankruptcy in the morning, all the rights / expectations, will be down the toilet, and I think the reaction on the stock market might be even worse that the current one concerning the troubles that the banks are in, not doubt that some government or institution will bail them out, because of the size of the disaster if either one of them had to be shut down, yet the fact remains that just like the miscalculation that Citibank amongst others, made miscalculations are made, and as I said, in such a case, there are no guarantees. How many people severed their relationships with IBM because they really believed in Amdahl, I guess if they wanted to keep on processing on mainframes, they were with their hats in their hands at the door of IBM in the last few years... no guarantees there... In 1992/3 was in a company myself that showed IBM the door because Amdahl had a 'better' deal... That is probably my last my cent's worth for 2007... Herbie 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
