On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:

>On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>>
>> That idea founders on the economics of support. ...  I
>> suspect a single service call to IBM costs, in the aggregate, more
>> than an entire desktop system.
>
>Have you priced a support call with Microsoft lately? One that lets
>you talk to someone who actually has access to and understands the
>code?
>
No; my point is that most personal Windows customers can endure
the entire life of the product without making such a call; most z/OS
customers can't.

-- gil

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