Or become a contractor to IBM yourself. Then you can try to make a profit by offering your subcontractors considerably more than Veritas does.
If IBM is trying to drive down the price of Sysprogs and they succeed, then they will have reduced the total cost of ownership of a mainframe system to a mainframe customer, and perhaps they will be able to sell more mainframe systems that way. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground So if I remember what contracting companies do IBM charges one rate. Then a company like Veritas Solutions is contracted by IBM and then they have to pay even less because they need to make a profit. Which is probably why the hourly rate is SOOOOOOO LOOOOW So the best action is to deal directly with IBM and not its subcontractors. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
