> From:    Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]> 
> 
> "He [David Leichner, chief marketing officer of 
> BluePhoenix Solutions Inc. of Cary, N.C.] says 
> the legacy technology is losing market share

Market share is not everything to everybody. IBM's
System i and System Z have higher profit margins
than their open systems. I don't think IBM is interested
in getting into the position where they say "sure
we lose money on every unit we sell, but we make it
up in volume."

In 2003-4 I was a project manager for a migration from
a HP3000 system to a iSeries. The tools to make it
(the system, not the migration) useful and easy (that
were free) were just amazing. It's what I wished the
HP3000 could have been.

Personally I think from a technology point of view both
MPE and (above all) OpenVMS are better than the
underlying OS on System i, but neither had/have the
support that IBM throws at System i, so there you are.

Jerry Finn

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