Re: AS/400

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

>I think the reason people are PO'ed (that's a technical term) 

"Purchase Orders" for a new interactive feature code is a technical term? <g>

>it is an _artificial_ limit placed purposely by
>IBM.  The other limits are (or were) _technological_ limits at the time.

But it has long been the policy of many makers of electronic goods to
artifically cripple models.  The difference is sometimes just jumper poisitions,
or circuit traces, or whatever.  But it has nothing to do with higher production
costs and everything to do with marketing and maximising profit, and reducing
production costs by (nearly) identical manufacturing for multiple models at
different price points.

It just use to be less obvious that this was happening.  With CFINT people are
just more aware of it.

On the one hand, we scream at IBM for the 400 (I mean iSeries) losing ground to
new installs because it is not price competitive.  Then they come out with
models which are more price competitive for new installs, and we scream at them
for that too.

Glad I'm not in marketing...

Doug

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