Wow! Is it the Fourth of Joulukuuta already? Seems like only yesterday that it was the 38th day of Kunagonda...
While IBM is one of the few companies to handle multiple functions (it's a floor wax *and* a dessert topping), I sometimes think that they're believing their own hype that the mainframe is dead. Hence this distancing from what (to my mind, anyway) would be an excellent tool to allow companies to test new processes/programs/subsystems on the (very) small scale. I would LOVE to take a spare desktop and run z/OS, just to do RACF report testing and updates. Performing "what if" scenarios there would be far safer (and more cost effective) than risking an operational mainframe LPAR (even a "test" or "system" LPAR) if we had the chance to use such a tool. I'd bet that, given the chance, most SysProgs and Techies would give an arm, a leg, and a box of un-used 80-column cards to be able to have access to an at-home, Intel-friendly pseudomainframe. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly I was thinking (dreaming) today about what if when I giving training for MVS stuff and each student had their own mainframe instead of connecting to a central one. We could do so much more. Here is what I wonder. Does IBM want to be a software company, a hardware company, or a service provider? Or what? No matter what, though, making z/OS software accessible for more people to learn can only increase IBM's profits no matter what they want to be. I mean, come one, I'm not going to replace my spread sheets with a CICS application. Anyway, well put, Doc. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Doc Farmer > Sent: 4. joulukuuta 2007 18:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly > > I hate to say it, but I hope IBM loses this legal fight. > > Why? > > Come one, be serious. How many of us here would LOVE to have our own > mainframe sitting on a spare laptop, just for bragging rights alone? > "Well, I > just finished up this work on my mainframe, and..." is an ego boost > equivalent > to getting an office visit from the Grace Hopper Cheerleaders! I know > just > having a small test platform like that would be a fantastic addition to > the "cool > factor" that a Supreme Nerd God like myself (as verified by > http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php ) needs for street cred with the > plastic > pocket protector crowd! > > Come on, IBM! Make that software available to IBM-MAIN'ers, RACF-L'ers, > etc., for $100 a pop, and you'll be able to make at least $20 profit on > each > copy. That'll help your bottom line (not to mention your pre-Christmas > sales, > which I know you depend on for 70% of your annual income) and make > several dozen tech-heads like myself very, very happy! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
