Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-05-01 Thread Timothy Sipples
Steve Comstock writes: My understanding of how the IBM world works today is that the largest 600 IBM customers are actually handled by IBM salespeople who are really IBM employess. Everyone else is served by VARs. Maybe the OP's VAR is doing cherry picking, only bothering to go after the clients

Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-30 Thread Timothy Sipples
John, You can contact me offline if you wish and I can look into why you're not getting an SAP on z proposal from IBM. That bothers me, absent more information at least. I am not aware of any particular size issues like you describe. In terms of company revenue, Baldor (SAP on z) is quite a bit

Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-30 Thread Steve Comstock
Timothy Sipples wrote: John, You can contact me offline if you wish and I can look into why you're not getting an SAP on z proposal from IBM. That bothers me, absent more information at least. I am not aware of any particular size issues like you describe. In terms of company revenue, Baldor

Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-29 Thread John Mattson
Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest, but it will probably take a few years. Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to conform. So, I thought Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux and IFL's and zVM !!! Just get

Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-29 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, John Mattson wrote: Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest, but it will probably take a few years. Sorry to hear this. Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to conform. So, I thought Hey, all those

Re: Slowly biting the dust.... IBM scalable... but only so far

2008-04-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
John Mattson wrote: Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest, but it will probably take a few years. Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to conform. So, I thought Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux and IFL's and