On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> I had a very disturbing conversation with someone in where I was told TSM
> licensing could increase 10 fold. Is IBM hurting for money? Has anyone else
> heard this nonsense? I could easily see us moving to something else if that
> was the case.

I just received a PPA quote from IBM that was quite reasonable.  My vendor
has not heard any such thing, and I beleive that raising prices 10 fold
from current list would totally damage IBM's market share (or potential).

just my .02.

bob