Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Ross Cassell:

 RC>> I suggest you look up what 64 bit is, and you should also make
 RC>> yourself aware of the fact that Linux is available in 64 bit and that
 RC>> probably within 10 years we will see 128 bit computing. 

 DC> You still don't get it.  Bob has already shpwn that old IBM code runs 
 DC> just fine on their newest systems.  there is no need to re-invent the 
 DC> wheel everytime M# comes out with a new peice of junk OS because M$ 
 DC> can't and/or won't get it right.

The M$ problem - and the same problem exists for other companies that write
applications for microcomputers - is that people have become used to *purchasing*
the software.  The users actually *own* it.  If there's no need to improve/upgrade
that software there's no reason to go out and buy a newer version (and there hasn't
been for at least a decade) then M$' (and others') money supply dries up.

The mainframe world has always used the leasing model.  The software is leased
by the customers for a specific period - usually a year.  If the lease is not renewed
at the end of the year the software (usually) stops working.  One employer I had
didn't renew the lease on a particular piece of software until a week or so before it
expired; beginning about a month before expiration the software would kick out a
reminder message on the operator's console once a day, with two weeks to go it
popped up once an hour with a reply expected (so it remained on the screen until
the message was answered - sort of like M$'s 'OK' box except this was text only).
In this manner the company's (mostly IBM and CA) cash flow is stabilized and 
doesn't depend on software rewrites every year or two.


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