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From: Nathan M. Andelin <nandelin@relational-data.com> > > From: "James Rich" <james@eaerich.com> > The base price of a 1070 CPW iSeries is $10,700. However, by adding 50 > "interactive" CPW the price raises to $67,000. > > Rather than build an os/400 environment (including native compilers) for > Linux, it seems to me that a better alternative would be to build a tool > that converts legacy applications to use something other than IBM's 5250 > interface. > And if everybody did this, IBM would lose the interactive money and would have to charge for "non-5250" work too. And I don't buy the argument (at times advanced on this list) that the cost to IBM of supporting 5250 is so enormous that it eats up all the "interactive tax". The interactive cost seems to me to be just low-hanging fruit (for the vendor).
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