-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
<snip> Everything old is new again. Didn't this used to be called "Time Sharing"? How does it differ from an outsourced service provider such as EDS, ACS, et al.? Or are you talking about some sort of high tech "co-op"? Would a bunch of software developers want to share a system? I know that I, paranoid that I am, would be very concerned about security and privacy issues. As well as backup and recovery. If two companies came out with similar products in a similar time frame would it be possible piracy (of the idea at least, if not any actual code), or just kismet? I don't know how important it is to small developers, but having a complete system on a laptop that can be taken to a potential customer's site and demo'ed seems really nifty to me. Not having to have the customer take time and effort to install a "proof of concept" just for a tryout would be nice. <snip> 1) Be very careful when getting into one of the big outsourcers. (a) Make sure the contract is iron clad for you, so that when you go to use your APF library, you don't have to go through their change team, etc. to update your product. For that matter, make sure you actually have an APF library you can use. (b) Then make sure that they don't have you in a production LPAR so that you get billed if it is found you caused a failure. (c) Ensure that you aren't being billed for all the cycles of the O/S while you aren't doing anything, in the case you are running in your own guest under VM, ASSUMING that they will even run you under VM. (d) Also make sure that any 3rd party software you need isn't being charged back to you at the GIGA-Whomper CPU rate for the processor you will be running on. 2) Be very careful about that development laptop. Drop it and you are dead for how many weeks? I'd rather have that sucker locked down to a desk and only use a second laptop that allows me to "dial in" to do those demos -- and even then, I'd set up two firewalls and VPN. I have experience with #1, having been at ACS where I worked on ACS/WYLBUR and saw how many developer organizations got, well, the shaft, as far as I was concerned. Which is why when we got a P/390 we did make it available to certain developers for a low fixed cost (which met the IBM contract agreements). 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
