RE: AS/400 System Handbooks

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - I guess now that the IBM INTERNAL price has come down to about 
half of what it was, they can afford to pass out plenty - subsidised by 
the grossly inflated price the business partners, consultants etc. are 
paying for them !


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-----Original Message-----
From:   Mike Shaw [SMTP:mshaw@ncal.verio.com]
Sent:   Thursday, October 01, 1998 3:11 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: AS/400 System Handbooks

Neil,

They pass them out like popcorn in the COMMON expo....Might want to 
grab one
there.

Mike Shaw
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Palmer <NeilP@DPSlink.com>
To: 'Midrange-L' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 10:04 PM
Subject: AS/400 System Handbooks


>Is anyone else out there as infuriated as I am about the price 
increase
>for the AS/400 System Handbooks for V4R3 ?
>
>In Canada the price went from $8.10 to $36.00 !!!   A whopping 444%
>increase !!!
>
>What is REALLY annoying though is that the internal IBM price dropped
>from $8.10 to $4.10
>I guess all IBM's customers/consultants/business partners are now
>subsidising the reduced price for IBM internal use !
>
>Don't they understand that for the most part the System Handbook is
>used to MARKET the AS/400 ?
>What kind of message does this price increase send out ?   Is this 
some
>bean counters idea ?
>
>I'll have to ask Al if I can use the word "SUCKS" to describe the new
>pricing at COMMON Sound Off next week.
>
>
>Neil Palmer         DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd.


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