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I'm confused. On one hand the article says they've eliminated the fee. On the other, they renamed it. >From someone who just spent $150,000 for a new interactive card to be installed tomorrow morning. And whose boss will be in Rochester on the day of: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/events/chat/chat_012003.html Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin SCarter@rsrcorp.com Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com 01/09/2003 05:31 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com> cc: Fax to: Subject: Interactive tax Eliminated? 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). "This confirms that GreenStreak was just an early pricing test to see if this restructuring would fly," says an Insider source close to IBM. However, IBM has discarded the name "5250 Interactive," which carried a negative connotation in recent years, and will call the capability "5250 On-Line Transaction Processing" (OLTP). IBM defines 5250 OLTP as "any task that uses a 5250 Data Stream." </snip> ____________________________________________________ J. Scott Carter Programmer/Analyst e-mail: Mailto:scarter@rsrcorp.com Phone: 214.583.0348 It's not the destination that counts in life it's the journey. The journey with the people we love is all that really matters. Such a simple truth so easily forgotten. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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