> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani
> > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:58 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator
> >
> > I understood the "when customer does not have a choice" in a
> > completely
> > different way. ( but then english is not my native language)
> >
> > In this particular case or thread , I understood that it meant
> > "a customer who cannot avoid being a z/OS customer" ( because he has
a
> > trillion z/os applications that would need 20 years to move
> > onto another
> > platform.
> > Or because he has only cobol programmers or whatever
> > expensive reason.
> > The idea being that for these customers, the prices can be
> > kept artificially
> > high on whatever run on GP processors because IBM does not
> > sell or rent z/OS
> > on other platforms than IBM mainframe.
> > my 0.99 euros :)
> >
> > Bruno Sugliani
> > zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr
>
> Well, customers always have a choice. But not necessarily any
desirable ones. A few years ago, our
> then-management was in a mode of "replace all systems with Wintel". We
had a software vendor who swore
> on the <insert religious book of choice> that they had a way to
replace __all__ of our z/OS programs
> (COBOL, assembler, EasyTrieve Plus, JCL, REXX, ... - batch and CICS)
with equivalent .NET based
> applications. And, they also averred (word of the day!) that the cost
would be less than keeping the
> current z-based applications.
Did that vendor also aver that the resulting quality of service would
equal or exceed that of the z-based applications? Or did your
then-management deem that an irrelevant consideration?
-jc-
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