RE: IBM's Frank Soltis "let go"

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Especially when the services are being done by H1-B's

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:17 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: IBM's Frank Soltis "let go"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:00 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: IBM's Frank Soltis "let go"
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Neil Palmer 
> <neilpalmer400mr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's plain to see that there's a purge going on of the 
> Rochester faithful by the Armonk politburo.  It's all about 
> services revenue > and "i" just doesn't play that game for 
> IBM because of its ease of use.  Don Rima pulled his head out 
> of the sand years ago, >  it's time we all did the same.
>
> it is about IBM adopting LINUX and getting out of the operating
> system, languages and framework business.  The decent thing for IBM to
> do is open source and/or sell off the IBM i operating system.
>
> -Steve

I'm a newbie here. There is a discussion going on at my shop to replace
the System z with a System i due to the cost of the z (hardware and
especially software). This thread sounds a lot like the threads on
IBM-MAIN about the same concerns. IBM, as a company, seems to not be
interested in the "legacy" market any more. I would love an Open/i5OS
and an OpenZos in the vein of OpenSolaris. But IBM will "ride the
revenue stream" for as long as they can. If they destroy the market in
the interim, then attitude seems to be "well then so be it".

I agree that "services" seems to be more profitable than either hardware
or software.

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