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[Dave McGuire]

On May 21, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Back on topic - IBM get their prices, because that is an accurate measure of
> their worth to the organizations that buy from IBM. Companies aren't dumb,
> and the people that specify these things aren't dumb. They have to prove
> that spending the half-million on an AS/400 will either save the company
> enough money to cover the cost, or, *prevent* the company from going out of
> business.
> 
> IBM doesn not sell pieces to people, it sells solutions to organizations.
> When you stop and think about an IBM 3090-class mainframe running Linux to
> support 20,000 individual system images running on demand in real-time, you
> start to understand that you can not compare what mainframes do to what
> other "conventional" boxes can do.
> 
> An IBM box may not make the best standalone single-user system around, but
> I'll tell you what - they *are* the best at what they do, and what they do
> has prescious little to do with what most people use their computers for...

  100% true.

  Ken is a man who understands the "right tool for the job" concept.
This is a rare and wonderful thing today.

          -Dave McGuire