On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:46:55 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:12:40 -0600, Doc Farmer wrote: >> >>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 >> >One PMR on such a system would put IBM in the red. Who would pay for >software support? How much? Some developers would likely freeload for >service on supported systems to which they have or pretend to have >access, not a welcome prospect for IBM. The C-note customers would need a pay-as-you-go service model, not unlike the PC support today. (Either accept it as broken, prove it to be a manufacturer error (in which case the call is free), or pay for education via PMR.) Allowing developers to freeload isn't a bad thing -- at least it is a developer working on the mainframe platform. I can count the number of successful small mainframe developers today on the fingers of my third hand... and I only have two hands. :( -- Tom Schmidt
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