"Chase, John" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff42354170e4c8...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.co m>... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sam Siegel > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:07 PM, McKown, John > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > -----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. > > > > > > > And the result was? ... > > The term "then-management" seems self-explanatory: They are not the > "now-management". :-) > > -jc-
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