On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:58:19 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Back indirectly to Kirk's point: in the fondly remembered yesteryear -- >let's pick the 1970s as an example -- how much did BT/Is pay for MVS time >(in 1970s inflation-adjusted dollars)? Mostly $0. The common practice in the 1970s was to trade product and/or consulting for mainframe access. I knew lots of people who spent many happy nights in various datacentres running their compiles, and testing their products. As a customer for several of these tiny ISVs, I well remember the product tapes would often enough come from a different place each time - wherever the developer could scrounge cycles. At least a couple of these efforts are now very well known, products owned by the likes of CA and other mainstream vendors. Even into the late 1980s it was possible for the proverbial "two guys in a garage" to design and build mainframe software using this model, and sell it to Fortune 500 companies. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
