That's your opinion, nowadays, yes, ten or more years ago, no
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
