I believe that one problem with the model below in today's environment is the need for strict security. I've worked in banking IT operations all my career. At one location we gave time on the mainframe to a vendor who had some products that plugged into IBM's CPCS (Check Processing Control System) in exchange for free use of his software. I don't believe there is any bank that would do that these days because of security issues.
Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Kent Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules -----Excerpted------ I also recall a time when an independent developer would exchange a promise of future access to a product for time on the mainframe. Does that happen anymore? Perhaps the entire mainframe mentality has changed over the past 40 years? Maybe IBM is not the only entity that has limited the access to the resources, and it has happened so gradually that we haven't noticed how tight and 'businesslike' the mainframe mentality has become? ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
