Re: Another one bites the dust
- From: "eBob.com" <fakename@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:34:52 -0400
I was at a university at the time, and that is my recollection too, i.e.
that the consent decree had something to do with reducing, but not
eliminating, the educational discounts.
A real killer was that when IBM started to charge for software, universities
just couldn't afford to make available to their students a broad variety of
priced products.
How do they (the IBM maingframe business) get back into the educational
market when most students have their own laptops and z/OS doesn't run on a
laptop? I guess it could, MVS can. But IBM doesn't seem to like the idea
of emulating zSeries hardware.
Bob
"Thompson, Steve" <Steve_Thompson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or so years
ago they did away with the discounts and universities started migrating
off the mainframe. The few that are left mostly use mainframes for some
type of administrative processing. The processing done by students is
done on PCs or on eunuchs systems, where years ago the processing was
done on mainframes. I don't think IBM failed to convince the university
in question to stay on the mainframe; I think IBM abandoned the
educational mainframe market a long time ago.
<snip>
I'm not sure, but I think there was some kind of consent decree or other
as a result of an Anti-Trust action that put the skids to this. Now that
all those have expired (I think), one might wonder when IBM will go for
this market driver again.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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