On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:57:43 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: > >>Are you suggesting that there may be extant contracts requiring IBM to provide >>continuing updates/corrective service on 3480 cartridges? > >Not suggesting that. But if, say, EvilCorp said "We need tapes, damnit, and >will migrate our 58,000MSUs off of Z unless you continue them", POK might >blink. Or not. > That's not lawyers; that's marketing.
But can anyone with 58,000MSUs make that threat credibly nowadays? (Well, I suppose Ed. G.) Where's Amdahl when you need them? But it can certainly address the issue of how the customer might add capacity for new function. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
