Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 08 November 2001, Chris Rehm wrote:

> What is the difference to your customer between IBM controlling CFINT with
> a governor or IBM actually manufacturing boxes with different levels of
> processor performance and physical limitation? If you went out and bought a
> 50 CPW machine then, you wouldn't be upset that it only handled 50 CPW,
> right? Would it be possible then to get down to the real issue of whether
> or not the features are worth the money they are being charged for?

I believe this is at the heart of the whole question. And I don't think 
anybody's answered it effectively yet. (Yeah, sure, some are upset that IBM 
might be claiming it's 'hardware' when it's really 'software'. But that merely 
evades the questions above.)

Tom Liotta

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