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This is a multipart message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] All the more reason to lease instead of buy. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Jim Damato <jdamato@dollargeneral.com> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com 08/02/2002 01:20 PM Please respond to midrange-l To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Green Streak I understand the business principles. There's no upgrade path -- fine. The server was only 2 million dollars anyway. Future versions of the OS will support fewer and fewer SPD attachments (Danger, Will Robinson!). The three year old server will not support "new" hardware features (which were really new three or four years ago) such as fibre channel or gigabit Ethernet. So, you've invested gobs of money in a "scalable" server as a hedge against growth. It's soon to be a boat anchor. Will you invest gobs more in the latest model, or should you shop around? If the business model does not take the customers' investment protection into account IBM will lose repeat customers. If they lose enough repeat customers maybe the stockholders will bring in managers who can better balance growth with obsolescence. It's not enough to lower prices if you're actively discouraging sales. It's not cheap if I don't buy it. Waah. -Jim -----Original Message----- From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@barsaconsulting.com] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:37 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: RE: Green Streak The older requirement that every System/38 was upgradable to a newer system had to go away to lower the price of the system being sold. We asked for lower prices, and they said yes. IBM is a business, and it has to make money. If it doesn't make enough money, the stockholders will get new management that will make money. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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