The more things change, the more they stay the same, and didn’t you just know it would be happening. InformationWeek says it has procured an internal IBM Corp memo written on June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems, Jeff Mason, telling staffers not to push System/36 users to the RS/6000, which he himself is responsible for, for fear of undercutting sales of the company’s highly profitable and higher margin AS/400s. It’s truly gratifying to see that despite all this talk of reorganisation, Big Blue is still willing to eat its own illegitimate children.
