Re: "TigerTools Says It Can Remove OS/400 Governors"

[Chris Rehm <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 October 2001 07:55 am, Brad Stone wrote:
> To me, this seems like Big Blue is really going against
> everything that they are trying to strive for, which is
> people using their products.  To begin with, the iSeries is
> already over priced in my opinion (adding in hardware,
> software, etc...)  If the price were lowered, more would be
> sold, and more money would be made.  It's like lowering
> taxes.  Give the people more of their own money, and they'll
> spend more and you'll actually make more income from taxes.

Well, I'd have to really disagree with what IBM is doing with their pricing
model.

I think they are having a problem addressing the iSeries to the multiple
markets that it works in. On one hand iSeries customers have a completely
proprietary system with a full set of integrated tools and utilities. On the
other hand, it is an open system allowing the use of the world of 3rd party
tools to access it.

The two markets price differently.

Now, I think Tigertools should do what they can to be a profitable
enterprise. IBM will of course try to respond in a fashion to protect their
income. If this means that the iSeries becomes unprofitable to develop. then
I guess that would mean there just isn't market demand for it and it should
go away.

Don't confuse that observation with my own desire. I would certainly like the
iSeries to be the most demanded of existing platforms. But the economics of
engineering the platform versus just capitalizing on the world of R&D in the
Wintel market might not be workable.


> Brad
> www.bvstools.com

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