On 17 Nov 2009 12:18:11 -0800, hmerr...@jackhenry.com (Hal Merritt) wrote: >Technical folks don't buy hardware, sales/marketing/political folks do. Thus, >the observation that the >MF was 'unsuited' meant that the suits were not inclined to buy a MF for such. >It was a poor business case.
So much of what IBM needs to do involves marketing. Changing the upgrade paradigm helped, but there are a bunch more things it can do to get mainframes to be considered when someone buys a Unix application to run on a server farm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
