Roger,
Thank you for posting the 2 articles below. I found them very interesting
and informative. This whole issue is very controversial. Legally, I
certainly can't comment as I don't know the law involved. It just seems to
me that it would be in IBM's best interests to have PSI and Cornerstone keep
selling selling their small mainframes. They keep getting revenue, however
small, from 300 or so customers. If I were IBM, I would rather lose the
hardware revenue and keep leasing the software, with the hope that at some
point those customers would get bigger, and eventually buy a z9, or whatever
is current at the time.
But, I suspect that many of the customers had larger mainframes, and are
just in a holding pattern trying to get off of z/OS. The way IBM is
treating their small customers, I'm sure that will increase the speed of
their getting off of z/OS. Then, they will forever be lost to the
mainframe.
I also remember being at an IBM marketing meeting in Milwaukee, where the
issue of smaller mainframes running on PCs was brought up. I think this was
between 1 and 2 years ago. The IBM spokesman said "Watch this space" for
furthur developements. Well, there doesn't seem to be any furthur
developements. All I see is IBM trying to get rid of any competition.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Des Moines, Iowa
515-645-5153
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Regards,
Roger Bowler
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler
Hercules "the people's mainframe"
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