Is that not a tautology ? :) (Could You be in a *business* without the goal to make profits ?)
Regards, Thomas Berg _______________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SM&S SWEDBANK AB (publ) > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > För Bill Fairchild > Skickat: den 3 oktober 2012 18:53 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes > out > > IBM is not in business to make mainframes or to keep legacy mainframers > employed. IBM is in business to make profits for IBM stockholders to > divide up each year. > > Bill Fairchild > Programmer > Rocket Software > 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA > t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: [email protected] * w: > www.rocketsoftware.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Roberts, John J > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light > goes out > > I know that there will be people on this list that will insist that the > mainframe platform is absolutely viable for the foreseeable future. > But what they are really saying is that they will support it as long as > it is profitable, and drop it the very day that it isn't. My old > employer (Amdahl/Fujitsu) did exactly that, going from Flagship to > Nothing in just two years. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
