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> Their entire VAR / Business Partner model, which I recall going
> way back, is based on the realization that IBM is NOT good at
> the application stuff, so why not team up with the professionals
> that ARE good at it?
You should meet the new IBM. They have been quietly, but systematically buying application development firms and building their custom technology group, and moving much of their development operations overseas.
That's not to say that IBM doesn't vasillate back and forth, appeasing business partners when they see fit, but their tendency is to move steadily into space that business partners previously occupied.
I have no doubt that if Rochester were to convert IBM i to a native GUI, the platform would take off. But at what cost? Who would license RDI-SOA? Who would need Websphere and all the configuration and performance management services that accompany it?
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