> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sam Siegel
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:07 PM, McKown, John
> <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com>wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani
> > > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:58 AM
> > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> > > 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.
> >
>
> And the result was? ...
The term "then-management" seems self-explanatory: They are not the
"now-management". :-)
-jc-
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