-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Stupid? MS patent <SNIPAGE>
This does not sound very innovative. CA' CAS9 does something similar. IFAPRDnn member of PARMLIB? <SNIP> How about NETVIEW and its different components that will allow you to keep enabling different pieces/components until you have automated operations both on your mainframe and off to the side using a PC? Then wouldn't the different parts of DFSMS fall into this... ? What about JES2 or JES3, TSO, VTAM/TCAM/QTAM/BTAM iterations going back into the 70s? And then surely there are items that you could cite from EXEC-8, GECOS, WANG/VS, Burroughs... One starts to ask questions about obviousness... But to really kill this, did they [M/S] not already market this with various parts that they [M/S] said were parts of the O/S (e.g. IE, Window Media Player) w/ W/95, W/NT, W/2K? And then there were the add-ons that they married to their O/Ses, such as Office vs. Office Professional... And so if these were marketed using such technology prior to the "priority date" for the patent, the patent should be dead. Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
