> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > > Ed, > > Thanks for sending that link. That article raises a number > of questions. If you're the head of an agency and your z > machine is swamped, can you upgrade? I'm sure the process > takes at least a year to upgrade, but if you can't get a > replacement machine, what do you do? Conversions off the > mainframe take years. Maybe this is not an issue and they > can just buy from a 3rd party reseller. Does anyone know > anything about the federal governments procurement policies > of new mainframes? Just curious, although as a citizen of > the US, that is something that affects me from a tax standpoint.
I'd wager that most if not all IBM products (hardware and software) are already available via current GSA contracts. As I read the article, the government is barring itself from any _new_ contracts with IBM until "whenever". -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
