I don't think IBM could legally charge different prices to different user s. I'm SURE their lawyers would let them. I guess that was a rhetorical question on my part.
But I think Tony Thigpen got it right: Hardware sales Hardware sales and even Hardware sales I think that the only reason VM is still around is that IBM thinks it can help them to sell hardware. I hope that's true! On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:46:04 -0500, Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] us> wrote: >Our company is very willing to continue to pay version 3 price for versi on 5. If >IBM were to offer version 5 at version 3 price to its current customers now >running version 3 on flex almost all would take it. The fact that other >customers with large IBM machines are paying much less for version 5 wou ld not >matter. When and if a company grows its flex box to where it approaches the size >of a small IBM box, then having VM cheaper on the IBM box will make a >difference. It will encourage users of large flex boxes to go to an IBM box.
