Eric Bielefeld pisze:
I can see why SAS would want to sell to the Windows market. There are
how many PCs in the world that run Windows. Several hundred million?
Compare that to what - 10,000 possible mainframes to sell to. Bill
Gates got to be the richest man on earth putting
Windows on every one of those Windows computers, and he only charges
around $100 per copy - at least for home use computers.
1. It is not true that Windows costs $100. It's one of the myths we
should fight!
Look at the price list - any "professional" version of Windows costs
more, and *server* versions costs much more! Add MS Office, Exchange, MS
SQL etc. Remember about "client licenses", "service and support", etc.
Multiply by the number of machines. It isn't cheap.
2. I understand that SAS want to sell to the Windows. However it doesn't
require to abandon z/OS market - does it ?
3. Last but not least: SAS is popular in mainframe shops (except Poland
<vbg>), but it's not so popular on other platforms. When we talk about
SMF records - it's quite obvious that no non-mainframe user would need a
tool for this purpose. Disclaimer: This is my limited observation, YMMV.
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