RE: Interactive penalty? what is the latest scoop.

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

IBM is pretty good about "leaking" technical directions for the future.
They are also very good about not leaking pricing directions.  I would
imagine that if true, we would find out on the day of announcement.  If
this were true and publicly acknowledged, current purchase/upgrade
decisions  would be put on hold immediately in the hope of a future
price decrease.

Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> Subject: Interactive penalty? what is the latest scoop.
>
>
> > Has anybody here dissected the announcements concerning interactive
tax
> > costs.
> > Has it gone away or is it just hype? Good news for baby as/400's?
> > I went to a conference recently where Buell Duncan said they
re-thought
> the
> > interactive penalty, and it's soon to be history. Everyone clapped
> loudly!
> >
>
> I wonder why none of the trade rags have picked this up.
> Maybe they don't go to "tech" stuff?
>
> If (as Al Barsa et al. maintains) the interactive penalty is "vital"
> to IBM and to the viability of the AS/400, maybe what Buell means
> is that the AS/400 as we know it will soon be history...