RE: CFINT: I understand it now...

Reeve,

IMV, "Every once in a while, you get it extremely right."  I hadn't thought
of it in these terms.  I just knew that the idea that there's a free-lunch,
or some sort of panacea, rarely holds up...


James Jay Toran (jjt)
Columbus, OH  USA
E-mail:  jt@ee.net



"Have a GREAT day...!  And a BETTER ONE TOMORROW~~~:Ù" (sm)



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> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 7:34 AM
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> Subject: CFINT: I understand it now...
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> It’s simple: compared to 5250 applications, server applications
> are grossly
> inefficient.  CFINT is IBM’s way of building a revenue base; when you get
> going on server applications, you won’t be paying the Interactive
> tax, you’
> ll be paying the Websphere Application Server tax or the
> crunching-datastreams-in-RPG-so-I-can-write-a-simple-error-message
> -back-to-t
> he-browser tax.
>
> What we’re spending for interactive features now will be redirected to the
> purchase of increased CPW systems.  And of course Big Blue can juggle the
> numbers so it will appear you’re paying less for the monsters
> system you’ll
> have to install to support the Brave New World of server applications.
>
> The put override is a thing of beauty…
>
>
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