Belated birthday greetings. Hmm.
I grant you that untrammeled access to source code _can_ result in disasters. But - IMO - user access to source code made ASP/JES3 (thanks, e.g., to Rolls-Royce and Rank Xerox) and many other products into what they are today. Would JES2/MAS have been available that early if it hadn't been for Mellon Bank? And the Open Source community has developed disciplines that deal with the exposure. I certainly wouldn't suggest that Open Source software isn't industrial strength. Back when you and I started, there were perhaps 10,000 computers in the world capable of running a compiler. Now there are probably hundreds of millions. That's a huge 'cloud' of potentially competent programmers - if one in a million has a bright idea. that's hundreds of ideas. But they won't be having them in the z/OS enviroment. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
