John, I understand, but someone is going to have support all the Banking legacy mainframes apps etc. There are a serious numerous with serious bucks invested. There at or time and the numbers probably are larger, we're 8000+ z/os installation, not sure how many licenses , Lpars, etc.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Oct 3, 2012, at 5:08 PM, "Roberts, John J" <jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us> wrote: > Bill Fairchild wrote: >> It is my opinion that they will also dump their hardware business the day it >> no longer is profitable. > > Another thing to keep in mind, that as a product line declines, the costs to > support that product line must also decrease, or the remaining customers must > bear an ever increasing burden until a breaking point is reached and even the > most conservative customers conclude they need to jump ship. > > If for example, the number of customers for CICS licenses starts to decline, > you can expect changes at Hursley Park. Some of the greybeards will be shown > the door, replaced with younger people at half the cost. At some point, more > and more support and development work will be shipped to cheaper locations > (India, China, etc.). And of course, customers will be asked to pay more. > And enhancements will slow down. Eventually there will be a death spiral > when customers are leaving the platform at such a rate that IBM can't squeeze > their people or their customers any more. It is then that they will put the > plug, like HP did with the 3000 product line. Or they might be convinced to > make it open source like Linux and thereby gain community support. > > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
