Re: Advanced Job Scheduler

Call your Business Partner.

I almost bit my tongue, but decided against it.

Am I wrong to be fed up with the need to contact a business partner to gain
access to products I already know I want to buy? IBM (Steve Will) is
agreeing that automation** is an ingredient of success. I see the formal
IBM Business Partners as an unnecessary hurdle to get over. Imagine a
world where I could click and pay on a web page to get new products
installed on IBM i in 2 minutes. What am I missing?

**http://bit.ly/youandi-strategy2015

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What it all boils down to is:
Call your Business Partner.

While it would be nice to simply find a list price on the internet and be
done with it many software products simply do not work that way.

IDK why. I have my suspicions:
1 - To avoid sticker shock we want you to listen to our siren's. You
can't resist their voices.
2 - No one pays list. That's just there to gouge you on maintenance at x%
of current list price.
3 - As long as you're looking at... you should really look at ... also.
4 - Honest attempt to make sure you're buying the right thing. Or don't
buy 5770-xyz when you may be entitled to a free upgrade from 5761-xyz.

Now, if you're trying to convince your boss and he's the only one who is
allowed to contact your business partner, then I can understand your
reluctance.

Some of the BP's on this list are getting tired of answering such
questions. Irks them when they do all the research and then you contact
your national BP who only says tell me what they told you and undercuts
the price.

Rob Berendt
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