I saw a roadshow this past summer and immediately came away with the implications to licensing. A small group of us also talked about what you do below, IBM changing the licensing or breaking the software.
To me anyway, it's a crafty/risky move and left me feeling, no disrespect to Neon intended, that it was like a pseudo-hack to z/OS. I smirked when I started to understand since I had not heard of the software before. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of the potential savings of running GP workloads on SP CP's? It's not surprising IBM is coming after them I'm just wondering what took so long. --- On Tue, 2/2/10, Mark Zelden <mark.zel...@zurichna.com> wrote: From: Mark Zelden <mark.zel...@zurichna.com> Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 11:59 PM On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:22:39 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Guy Gardoit wrote: > >>Good for IBM - goodbye Neon, sleep tight. >> >I'm not sure why the jubilation. Sure, Neon is in business >to make money. They're trying to do so by offering IBM's >customers a way to save money. Whether it's legal or not >is for the courts to decide; they haven't rendered that >decision yet. Until then, in the interest of their pocketbooks, >pragmatic customers should be rooting for Neon. > >>On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Ed Gould wrote: >> >>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/ibm_countersues_neon/ > >-- gil > I don't have a stake either way, but if I were rooting for Neon and they won this battle, IBM would still be free to change the licensing rules or not charge less for special engines, or they could just change the code and break zPrime for Neon. So the only benefit seems to be temporary for anyone using the software. Long term, it could hurt everyone else. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
