One of the Flex resellers told me that IBM "fixed" the Hercules problem by giving all those employees a copy of Flex-ES to run on their laptops. For free, of course.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Sidler Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 8:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:40:54 -0000, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There are repeated and obvious indications that some posters are either using or trying to use >z/OS under Hercules - the latest being serious enquiries about running CF code and the new >zArchitecture floating point decimal instructions. If IBM succeeds with the software license >infringement part of its suit against PSI, I would strongly advise Herculeans to delete, >erase, dispose of, and remove all trace of IBM licensed code. It could be your source of z/OS I generally agree, except that it appears that many (most?) though probably not all of these hercules users running z/OS or other licensed OSs appear to be IBM employees. I'm no lawyer--would they have a licensing problem? Running DEMOPKG (sp?), which seems to be designed for this. Perhaps they don't have it in their budget to get a FLEX-ES laptop. Whatever the excuse, it should would make it easier to demo, say, WDz on a laptop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
