On 2 Feb 2009 21:49:01 -0800, [email protected] (Brian Westerman) wrote:
>Unfortunately, (or maybe not) there are several products that are becoming a >commodity, (Sort being one of them, Syncsort, DF/Sort, CA-Sort), and the >differences between them are less noticeable for some sites, so it comes >down to money. I'm sure a lot of sites run CA-Sort because they "got a >deal", and many of them might actually love the product. ;) > >I believe that software should be affordable, (not free, just affordable), >especially with products like these where the development and software costs >have probably been recovered 10 to 20 years ago. But I'm sure they have >stock holders to keep happy. There is a typical cycle where a couple of decades ago some companies found a need for a powerful, efficient sort utility that competed favorably with what IBM offered. They sold their product, and then IBM decided to put sufficient effort into what previously did not interest them - and succeeded in removing that advantage that the competitors had. I suspect virtually all of the customers now of the competitors are there now because it's easier than changing after all this time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
