>From a personal perspective I believe that IBM was late to the game with GUI and WAS capability for the mainframe. Our mid-range counterparts were working on web alternatives, in test, just prior to Y2K. We didn't take delivery of WAS 3.02 until sometime in 01 if memory serves. By this time it was too late, too much of the *new* functionality, that could have been done on the mainframe but wasn't due to little or no support, was done on mid-range. This basically sounded the death knell for us, we could never catch up.
z/OS does seem to be dying a slow death. Businesses that have converted are not going back to z/OS. There has been a consistent move away from OS/390 and z/OS over the past number of years by small/middle level clients for a number of reasons. I believe there is a future for mainframe hardware architecture but I can't see the underlying support being z/OS but more or less a Linux alternative. We have or will be assimilated. z/OS may be around for a while but probably only supporting mega centers. Just my humble opinion. Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 06/16/2007 10:55 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules But let's be very clear who is doing the pushing. IBM. You can say that it is IBM's choice. It is. And they have made it. (And that the shareholder's profits have to be protected.) Ce la vie to Z/OS. By restricting access, and not making Z/OS as easy to use as it could be. (That GUI for SPF could have been so much better, with just a tiny bit of effort.) Clem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
