On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:38:43 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: > >Yeah, yeah...there have been some constructive ideas too! Think what gets >everybody's goat is that they broke their word about IBMLINK and availability >and pulled the plug before it was stable. In a commercial world if we did >something like that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse would descend on our >cubicles. They got bad design or bad software and there just ain't enough >tergiversates in the world to remedy the problem.... > Are you suggesting that IBM is not a commercial concern?
The second source problem. There is always the hazard of becoming so enthralled to a supplier, be it IBM, Microsoft, or other, that one can not mount a plausible threat of taking ones custom elsewhere. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

