On 5 Oct 2006 22:31:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Timothy Sipples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:56 AM >Subject: Re: FW:A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community >> >> <snip> >> >> All that said, small mainframe customers (and developers) should keep >> letting IBM know what they need. IBM generally does respond if it can, as >> in the examples above. >> > >Tim, > >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.
I think the problem is that the IBM mainframe division has never really liked dealing with small, maybe because a lot of the support costs are the same regardless of size of shop. I suspect they really don't know how to handle small in many cases and there are IBM sales organizations that would much rather deal with i or p series. > >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
