There are two usefully separated issues here. First, Shane may very well find it difficult to convince a small z/OS shop to behave rationally, and in a shrinking market for services of the sort he provides he can scarcely walk off in high dudgeon when this happens.
The cost-benefit analysis for thge acq On 7/4/14, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 23:42:02 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >>> Small customers (at least) see software included in the base as "free" - >>> and ISVs like Dave are paddling a barbed-wire canoe upstream to get a >>> sale. Simple as that. >>> Believe me, I've been in to bat trying to get ISV software in the door, >>> and in a lot of (most) cases it ain't gunna happen. >> >>Even if it was free with optional support? > > Other Dave, Dave .... ;-) > Don't know if I've tried that. > However, I've had customer legal eagles fight free software with full free > support - but that was in the Amdahl days before concepts like FOSS were > current. > You have to remember it's never "my" shop. > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
