Re: Interactive penalty? what is the latest scoop.

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Mark Villa <markvilla@knology.net>
To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Interactive penalty? what is the latest scoop.


> Has anybody here dissected the announcements concerning interactive tax
> costs.
> Has it gone away or is it just hype? Good news for baby as/400's?
> I went to a conference recently where Buell Duncan said they re-thought the
> interactive penalty, and it's soon to be history. Everyone clapped loudly!
>

I wonder why none of the trade rags have picked this up.
Maybe they don't go to "tech" stuff?

If (as Al Barsa et al. maintains) the interactive penalty is "vital"
to IBM and to the viability of the AS/400, maybe what Buell means
is that the AS/400 as we know it will soon be history...