Back in the day when graduated software charges were young and a certain
whale of a software vendor was swallowing up every little Jonah encountered
in a dark grotto, I excoriated a hapless sales rep for confiscatory pricing
policies. My shrillest point was that he was charging me more to run the
same software as a smaller customer down the street who might be in the
very same business. I was a deep pocket being forced to subsidize a smaller
competitor already snapping at my heals. It was a mutation of the old
two-cow metaphor: if you have two cows, a big one and a small one, you chop
off pieces of the big one to feed the little one until you have only one
cow left. Sociocapitalism? Mad-cow-ism?
That was then. Today I'm happy to help feed the little buggers around me
because I recognize that cows are herd creatures. One loner roaming the
wide open range does not thrive regardless of its size or prowess. My udder
is full. Little ones may step up and take a slug or two.
P.S. This offer is valid only for supplicants who have to reach UP to
imbibe. Bogus posers may expect a swift hoof in kisser for their trouble.
.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
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>>Gee, might that mean that they will be extending z/OS down to the
lower end?
I am not so sure about that... The baby z800 could go al low as 40 MIPS,
wasn't that the minimum that they could afford to sell with a Z/Server?
Lower than that just wouldn't pay in terms of future revenue from HW
maintenance / SW Licensing, which in the end all adds up to keep paying
for the R&D + Manufacturing cost.
Herbie
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Subject: Re: IBM Hardware Group in Big Restructuring
On Jan 4 Sam Knutson remarked:
>Surprised no one had commented on this....
Relative to IBM's reorganization, as reported in:
><http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5itmCjP7yW5p6AcqSoQYLlhBoCS0gD8TUL8U
G0>
I saw the article. Was especially interested in the remark that:
- IBM gets most of its business from big corporations and governments,
- but it has been trying to improve sales of services, software and
servers
- to smaller companies because their technology purchases are growing
- at a faster rate.
Gee, might that mean that they will be extending z/OS down to the lower
end?
But my interest rapidly dissippated as I reflected that: (1) There is
really
no way to know what the reorganization will mean by the time it actually
hits the ground. Whatever the end result will be it is sure to be other
than
you might expect. (2) The announcement is vague enough to be essentially
useless for a client to use in planning.
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