-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
<SNIP> P.S. And to someone who mentioned pooling resources - PWD contracts -> expressly forbid <- sharing of PWD materials and resources, i.e., one FLEX-ES per customer, don't share it with anyone else or we will pull your contract. So you would have to set something up under a non-PWD contract, and those software costs are a major hurdle to overcome without getting like 100 or so ISVs together. <SNIP> Back when I had a P/390 at ACS, we were allowed to make the machine available to other PWD member/developers. However, we could not charge for CPU cycles, number of I/Os, etc (which is how ACS charges for their systems, or did). But we were allowed to charge a fixed rate for access to the platform. And so we did that for two different entities that are represented on IBM Main today (I think both entities have people at least lurking here). We could not run production on that machine, unless that "production" was the development and testing of software, and activities directly associated. You might want to double-check the contract verbiage and see if it is still that way. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
