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SCarter@rsrcorp.com wrote:
Has anyone else heard about this?
from insider weekly e-mail
<snip>
Interactive fees eliminated: IBM will also announce that maximum 5250
Interactive CPW will come at no charge in most of the new configurations.
This action reflects IBM's success with GreenStreak, which pushed hardware
sales without the burden of the interactive tax (IW 11/25/02).
Wow!
If this is the case, I can think of more than just a few customers
that are going to be quite riled at this! Would IBM compensate them them
by means of something like a discount when they upgrade, in view of the
fact that they were part of a VERY expensive marketing (or lack thereof)
exercise? Or are they going to raise the price of the non-interactive
machines to be closer to that of the interactive boxes?
Forgive a stupid question, but is this possibly a case of IBM
acknowledging that they (legally, technically or any other way) were
unable to kill FAST/400?
Hopefully those customers who were considering to move off the 400 due
to this tax will rethink their decisions. Hope it is not too late.
Cheers.
Jan.
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