RE: Ordering CODE/400 w/o AS/400 S/N - Update

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Jon, if IBM wants to be true to their stated plans then whomever "owns"
the product should be able to sell it anyway s/he wants in a case like
this.

You would think so but that isn't the way it works.

 >> Otherwise s/he doesn't own it, does s/he?

"Ownership" of an IBM product is not ownership in the conventional sense.
It just means that you're the person who gets shouted at when things go
wrong <g>.  The owner does indeed make many decisions but they are within
certain rules - those rules currently state that AS/400 software has to be
associated with a serial number.  It doesn't make any sense but there it
is.  Yelling at the product owner does no good - they are trying to fix it.

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