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From: <thomas@inorbit.com> 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.) ===>My answer would be that on other platforms the price of computing halves every 18 months. This decrease is mirrored on the AS/400 is decreasing server prices. But green screen computing does not benefit from this decrease because of the interactive tax. Someone said no too long ago that customers shouldn't whine: green screen computing has not gone up in price over the past decade. But it hasn't dropped in the same way as server computing has. That is the rub IMHO.
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