Yes, and we all will have jobs in La La land. --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:45 PM > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
