RE: ILE philosophy

I agree completely, Mark.

<Rant Mode> *ON

IBM should be making it's money from selling machines and operating systems
that customers demand because the best applications run on them.  Not from
selling developer tools.  Developers are the ones who create the
applications that create the demand for the machines.  Fleecing developers
is like the dairy farmer trying to make a few bucks on the side selling
barbeque.  Sooner or later, he's gonna run out of milk.

If all the languages and all the tools and small one-user machines had been
made available to developers at little or no cost (like windoze and unix
have always been), then all the kids, and all the college students,  and all
the independent developers, as well as the larger vendors would all now be
developing on OS/400 (and the clients would have been running on OS/2)
because it's the best system to run on.  And, AS400's would be selling by
the millions!

Don't they ever learn?  Linux ain't popular 'cause it's better.  It's
popular 'cause it's FREE.  duh.....

<Rant Mode> *OFF

Oh, well, it's Friday and a hurricane is coming.....time to batten down.

>  Newer technology is great
> (i.e.  web, Java), but along w/ the good, we get a healthy dose of
> additional costs.  Now before you tell me that there's no free lunch, I
> think that IBM *should* make money.  I just think that their marketing
> model is antiquated and doesn't fly in today's M$ way of doing business
> that most shops are used to (in short - get as many people as you can
> hooked on it, then get the upgrade and maintenance fees.)
>
>   -mark
>
>


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