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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:38:36 -0800
- Sender: "IBM Higher Education Consortium" <IBM-HESC@PSUORVM.BITNET>
- From: acc00rrb@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
- Subject: Re: (no subject given)
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- I agree completely with Jerry Bryan's analysis and conclusions. IBM needs
- to view HESC as part of its *long-term* partnership with educational
- institutions (even if that means direct subsidies for 'Product Groups' in
- the new, entrepreneurial IBM!) rather than just a different way to market
- its software.
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- >What all of this has to do with granularity is that the courser the
- >granularity, the less association there is between the cost to the
- >installation for the HESC and the amount of software which is run.
- >With such cost insensitivity, there is more incentive for installations
- >to run IBM software and hardware, and less incentive to downsize to
- >(possibly) non-IBM hardware and software. The customers get more
- >software for less money, and IBM has more customers and more revenue.
- >This is a win-win situation if ever I saw one. Therefore, I argue
- >(for today, at least) to return the HESC to its roots, and to provide
- >courser granularity, not finer.
- Bob Blackmun
- Director of Computing Services
- UNC Charlotte
- Charlotte NC 28223
- (704) 547-2283 / fax 547-3134
- Internet: ACC00RRB@unccvm.uncc.edu
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