On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > ....I think there may be some over-analysis here. In theory at least, any > vendor introducing their software product to a new (for them) platform can > price it however they want. <SNIP>
Of course. What I've seen is some vendors being timorous about Linux on z because they thought that they couldn't charge "appropriately", FSVO "appropriately", and that they would thus cannibalize other sales. I've heard that many times from companies who think they can ignore the rising tide. Some of them eventually "get it", some of them don't; some of them will survive, some of them won't. (And no, I'm not claiming those subsets are congruent.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
