Re: Interactive tax Eliminated?

I'm confused.  On one hand the article says they've eliminated the fee. On 
the other, they renamed it.

>From someone who just spent $150,000 for a new interactive card to be 
installed tomorrow morning.  And whose boss will be in Rochester on the 
day of:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/events/chat/chat_012003.html

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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Has anyone else heard about this?


from insider weekly e-mail
<snip>
Interactive fees eliminated: IBM will also announce that maximum 5250
Interactive CPW will come at no charge in most of the new configurations.
This action reflects IBM's success with GreenStreak, which pushed hardware
sales without the burden of the interactive tax (IW 11/25/02).

"This confirms that GreenStreak was just an early pricing test to see if
this restructuring would fly," says an Insider source close to IBM.

However, IBM has discarded the name "5250 Interactive," which carried a
negative connotation in recent years, and will call the capability "5250
On-Line Transaction Processing" (OLTP). IBM defines 5250 OLTP as "any task
that uses a 5250 Data Stream."
</snip>

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