Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Douglas Handy" <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

The DC-3 had huge design and development costs, which they amortized
> over a thousand planes.  This seemed very reasonable because a build of
> 1,000 units was a likely life-cycle for the design.  Well, hell, wasn't
> that a boon when they built plane # 1,001, and the thousands that
> followed?


For that matter, I heard back before the S/36 came out the costs of the S/34
were amortized over 14,000 units which was the rumored expected life sales.

I think it is safe so say they beat those projections.  :)

Doug