RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

What about "capacity on demand" where you can call up IBM, spend some $$$,
get a temporary code, and get the system to start using more of the
processor(s) that it already has?  It's been around awhile and IBM was
touting it at the last COMMON.  We are cruising along just fine on our
system so I haven't paid a lot of attention to it but is this a tax for
batch as well as interactive or is it just another reference to the
interactive tax?

It's their system, their marketing, and their pricing scheme.  If we don't
like it we can either take it or leave it.  It just doesn't seem right,
kind of like buying a Porsche and not being able to drive it faster than 45
MPH unless you pay an extra 20K.  Maybe it isn't marketing so much as it is
reducing the number of models that they physically produce but retaining
the multi-model pricing structure.  Then again, maybe it is all marketing.


Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
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