> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: IBMLink SEV1 Ticket 32927263 ETA 12:20PM > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
And where else do you go for a z/OS equivalent? Tom Kelman ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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