>>> but I would be _highly_ surprised if IBM doesn't use the occasion of >>> the first z/OS version change in 13 years to raise prices >> It's awfully late in the game to announce a price increase. One would hope >> that would have been done when 2.1 was previewed.
>Generally, I don't think announcement previews include pricing information. >Usually, only official announcements have that. The salient point is that customers need to know of price increases in advance of GA. If 2.1 isn't in a customer's budget they will wait until next year to install it. Bob Shannon Rocket software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
