RE: DB and App Agnosticism on the iSeries (thinking about:Questionabout UDB on iSeries)

Joe,

Sorry to drift OT a little...

Businesses are not ethical beings.  While in the US businesses have the
same legal rights as citizens, they are not bound by either ethics or
morals.  Their sole reason for being is to produce profit for their
owner(s). 

Now, hopefully they will be run in an ethical manner and if so, one
would hope their customer base would approve of and support such
behavior.  However, some companies find they can profit while behaving
unethically for a while, sometimes quite a long while, and have no
problems doing so (insert looooong list of examples).

I'm not sure I can truly fault companies for not behaving ethically.
Well, I can, but given they are purely bound by profit motive, I can
understand it.  What I cannot understand is why customers reward
unethical companies with their business.  In the long run, I think that
says more about us as a culture than the behavior of the businesses
themselves.  If people and other businesses compared ethical behavior in
addition to price, features, etc. when shopping or evaluating vendors,
the less ethical firms might have a harder time making a profit.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:44 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: DB and App Agnosticism on the iSeries (thinking
about:Questionabout UDB on iSeries)

<snip>

>But that's an ethical question, and let's continue past that particular
sticky wicket.

<snip>

>But that's another ethical issue we'll avoid for this discussion.

<snip>

>The former is yet ANOTHER ethical quagmire, and so let's once again
assume the better path and assume you're trying to actually write
competitive Windows software.



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