Re: New lower cost IBM i announced

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if Pete was and IBM Business Partner, but if he was and his
product was registered in the Global Solutions Directory I don't believe
IBM would have said "hey, we have an ISV that can help save a LOT of time!"
instead of offering the timeframe they did.

Even though IBM has us ISVs register our software and keep it sort of up to
date in their Global Solutions Directory Listing, they still seem to have
zero interest in sending customers our way or even use it as a resource
themselves.

I've seen this specifically with IBM i customers moving to Office 365 for
email.  IBM's SMTP won't handle that (without some serious rigging, a PC
proxy, etc), but instead of sending them my way (or to any other ISV with a
viable solution) they give them a quote for so many hours to help "solve
the problem".

Go figure.  :)

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
Native IBM i e-Mail solutions for Microsoft Office 365, Gmail, or any Cloud
Provider!

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I remember getting a 90 hour estimate from the IBM software to run the
> conversion. Pete's product made it happen in a little over 30 hours. The
> client was able to convert in a weekend, and saved 60 hours of my time to
> babysit the conversion.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Cell 708-670-6978
> Office 409-267-4027
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx