Welcome to the Borg Collection. Resistance is futile! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 SYSN 6:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe & Evil
Ed Gould wrote; > I cannot say if the cost is more in PC land than in MF land. > I just don't have the background in the PC arena. The two > (was three) major vendors have been raked over the coals by > just about everyone on here. So there is no use in namimg > them again. Not to pick on Ed, but everything costs more on the MF no matter what anyone says. That's because of the costs of doing business in this market space and the relatively small (tiny!!) size of the market in terms of customers, if not dollars. No matter what anyone says, IT and especially MF systems software is a very people-intensive business. It did not get this way over night. You can argue whether it's what the market will bear or just gouging, but the reality is that people don't work for altruism. This is a business like any other and as such it has to charge enough to pay the bills and give a return to the shareholders. If there were more large systems customers the costs would be spread wider and they would be lower on average than today. PC software only looks "cheap" FSVO cheap because the costs are spread over a much much larger number of customers. Building PC software costs a ton of money too. CC BTW> after the IBM disclosure meetings this week the cat is out of the bag and a lot of the other CA guys have been dying for me to "de-cloak" so here goes... Check the email address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
