> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Jones > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules > > As a (very) small ISV (in the z/VM space, not z/OS or VSE), I would be > much > more inclined to accept IBM's statements that "they feel our pain" with > respect to the problems we are all now having with the PWD program and > lack > of small development systems availability if I didn't keep running into > things like this (from a colleague): > > >Don't know whether this is a 'news': IBM has made a new z/architechture > > emulator which will run on linux(Intel PC, more precisely as IBM said, a > > ThinkPad/T60 running Suse) and AIX(Power). It requires a USB hardware- > key > > plugged in to enable the cpu and the total price is about $100. However, > > it's only available to IBMers. > > The USB hardware device is an IBM 1090 (a.k.a, the IBM System z Personal > Development Tool Adapter (zPDTA)), and the software is called the IBM > System > z Personal Development Tool (zPDT). It's not Flex-ES and it's not > Hercules. > > So, for about $100, my problems as a small ISV could be solved.....wonder > why IBM isn't interested in making that happen. > > DJ
I hope you realize that when IBM provides a $100 mainframe-in-a-box to its employees, that IBM *owns* the products developed on thoses boxes. Do you want to give up your intellectual property rights in exchange for a cheap mainframe development system? Jeffrey D. Smith Principal Product Architect Farsight Systems Corporation 700 KEN PRATT BLVD. #204-159 LONGMONT, CO 80501-6452 303-774-9381 direct 303-484-6170 FAX http://www.farsight-systems.com/ see my résumé at my website (yes, I am looking for employment) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
