RE: Getting legal!

[Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I know that this will strike many of you as ridiculous, but IBM is in
> business to make a profit.

And to do that they are plundering, raping and exploiting a legacy
market as much as possible. So there are no new customers and new
releases have more changed lines of code than usable features. I hate
to think of the last AS/400 customer (pardon me!) iSeries customer
paying for all the development costs as sales decline into oblivion.
Hopefully the last customer will turn out the light :)

I do think IBM is getting a little better, the "greenstreak" promotion
is nice, but the problem has just fallen a level down. The legacy ERP
vendors and other ISV's are raping, plundering and exploiting their user
base until it dwindles to zero as they ship more "enhanced" modules without
any new features (read bug fixes!).

Hopefully all parties involved can get together on value as a basis for
expense rather than leverage and market position before there is no more
market.

Our last quote to "upgade" our system (ie swap out our 620/2179 for
a 270 2432/1519 dropped us a tier from P20 to P10, cost $60k for the
new hardware and software from IBM...and left us with a software migration
charge from our ERP vendor at $300K with an addition $40K yearly in annual
license fees. I think we have a major ROI issue and a no-go from management
on that one.

Regards

Konrad Underkofler