Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

["Brad Jensen" <brad@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.)

Ah, you want customers to behave as if they have no human nature.
You must be a programmer.

Brad Jensen
Laservault.com