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Re: fetching the text value of an element inside an element

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• Subject: Re: fetching the text value of an element inside an element
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:57:01 -0500
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On Jan 18, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Fredrik Lindgren wrote:

> I wonder if there is a business case for setting up a company 
> reselling free software to get around sceptical management. I mean, 
> without changing or really supporting the actual software, just 
> charging for it. ;-).
>

I've had inquiries along these lines from the sales force of my 
employer (whose customers tend to be conservative, mainframe-centric 
shops).  My newbie-to-the-mainframe-world response was something like 
"why would they want to buy something they can get for free?"  The 
answer was basically that they want someone take responsibility for 
evaluating and testing code, who they can call when something breaks 
and  be sure of an immediate response.

Not to get too far off topic, but "free" software is only free if you 
have the  people with the time and expertise to exploit it effectively 
for your organization.  There are plenty of companies out there who 
find it cheaper to license software for $50K/year (knowing that they 
can call someone on New Years Eve if it breaks) than to hire developers 
at $100K/year who will turn off their pagers on New Years Eve :-)  This 
is one reason why mainframes still do the heavy lifting, years after a 
paper and pencil cost/benefit analysis of the hardware and systems 
software licensing costs would indicate that it makes no sense. This 
probably applies to all sorts of expensive DBMS, ERP, and app server 
software, not just mainframe shops.

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