I enrolled and then tried to join. They wanted me to jump through too many hoops, so I blew it off.
IBM, like all other really big vendors, will obtain at least one of every competitor's products in order to reverse-engineer everything proprietary in that product. This might be an elephant in the room, however, so I'd better not say too much more. Bill Fairchild Software Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.4503 * Mobile: +1.508.341.1715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: NEON zPrime webinar Just hung up on the NEON zPrime webinar. Yawn. It was a carefully scripted dog and pony show, with no spontaneous questions, and no meat on the bones. They brought in a lawyer and a code forensics expert to explain how zPrime did not infringe, but lacking the details of the exact zPrime mechanism(s), I found the webinar less than convincing. Sooner or later, if enough revenue is put in jeopardy, there will be a lawsuit(s), either from IBM or an OEM software vendor. The one thing I did find interesting is that IBM Global Services is apparently a zPrime customer (ROTFLMFAO). Regards, Tom Conley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
