On Monday IBM announced further price rises for z/OS products: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/877/ENUSZA12-1059/index.html
According to this announcement, prices for WebSphere for z/OS as well as sundry Websphere, Tivoli, and DB2 tools will rise by 5% in UK and South Africa, and 3% in the rest of EMEA from January 1, 2013. Meanwhile, my France Telecom mobile phone subscription went down earlier this year from 61 euros a month to 24.90 following the entry of a new competitor (free.fr) into the French mobile phone market: http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2012/01/12/pour-l-autorite-de-regulation-des-telecoms-l-arrivee-de-free-va-reduire-la-marge-des-autres-operateurs_1628621_3234.html Roger Bowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
