Timothy: IBM can’t seem to get their act together on internet issues (just look at all the issues brought up here and don’t forget the hundreds of thousands of the non mainframe public who are frustrated. HINT the internet is not anywhere as complicated as the MF. The other sort of non public side are the Zos products that are languishing and are not really supported any more (i.e. TSOE and all of its products session manager, tso dataset utilities, etc etc etc). There are parts of IBM that are seeming to raise to the surface where other parts are sinking into oblivion. The latest sermon from the IBM mount says that workers can no longer telecommute where 5 or 6 years ago it was all the rage within IBM and its worked, IBM doesn’t know its ass from the hole in the ground. Add to this the astounding discontinuance of Sales support and SE's (or what ever they are called now) its a real wonder IBM is actually selling MF now days. IBM is its own worse enemy on so many levels it sickening. The most sickening part of this is that IBM is becoming another MS.
Ed ps: I sold off my IBM stock holdings and bought Apple. And its done wonders for my retirement. > On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:58 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > > Charles, IBM has been building System/360 machines and their direct, lineal > descendants for well over half a century. In IBM's latest earnings report > (and with impressive priors) its IBM z System/LinuxONE revenues and profits > are up again, and capacity shipments are up even more, again. That's even > without counting the related (and extremely real) revenues and profits in > software and services. > > Wouldn't you be *thrilled* to have a business like that? The answer is > patently obvious (pun partially intended). > > I also don't worry about whether Apple is working hard on the next iPhone, > or whether software will always require hardware. However, if you're > searching for a platform to worry about, I nominate this one: > > http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/20/oracle-lays-off-450-employees/ > > Really the only thing that needs to be said, again, is "Thank you." I don't > speak for IBM, but if I did, I'd say pretty much the same thing. We're > delighted that the systems IBM's engineers work so hard to make ever better > are so widely, so vigorously appreciated in the market, by all of you. > > Onward and upward. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
