On Friday, 10/06/2006 at 01:31 AST, Pinnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bottom line is that IBM keeps erecting barriers for small developers to > get on the platform. That's why I'm still developing on a P390 with z/OS > V1R4 in 31-bit mode. PWD recently added a $1000/yr license charge for the > ADCD which was previously free. The FLEX-ES boxes at >10K for a laptop or > >30K for a server are priced beyond my means. So only the big developers > will continue to develop for z/OS, everyone else will keep developing for > .NET, Java, and Linux on their commodity PC's for <$1000. If IBM abandons > FLEX-ES, you won't have any z/OS development happening in any company under > $1M market cap. Good luck when that happens.
If PWD is really not affordable, then each and every member of PWD who does z/OS development *should* rise up and be heard. The rock/hard place is if you do s/w development as a hobby, not as a business, and just want to have fun, recoup your costs, and have a little something left over to supplement other sources of income. For those folks the ante may be too high. But I just don't know; I've never been a self-employed s/w developer. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
