RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

> IBM never marketed it in any way.

No argument on that one!

> In the initial days when there were many tiers of interactive
> CPW, the 100% interactive machines were sometimes four times
> the cost of the zero CPW version.  Nowadays, there are only
> two versions: with and without.

Which is actually a part of the problem.  EntEd for a 570 is priced to
accommodate allowing thousands of CPW of interactive while I at most
need just a few hundred.  EntEd for the 570 costs $300K on our dual-core
main system with 6300 CPWs; it costs $300K on our5 single-core (3300
CPW) DR system.  It's a heavy price to pay.

Sure, the pricing is simplified, but it's also geared against the
customer.

> At least in this instance IBM has been clearly stating for YEARS that
you need to get off the 5250.

We're a JDE shop.  We're limited to deploying solutions that will be
supported by JDPeopOracle.  There is a version of JDE that supports
browser-based access, however, the upgrade process to that version is
not something we can do easily.  It is happening, but it is a slow and
costly process for us to reconcile our customizations & business process
against what's in the new release.  And unfortunately, I'm not even sure
if that version eliminates the need for intereactive (IIRC it uses the
Seagull tool set).