P S wrote:
My SWAG: This is NEON's way of getting IBM to buy them, to put them
out of their misery, a la PSI.
That might be their objective. If so, it's a failed strategy.
IBM knows that many ISVs figured out long ago how to enable 3rd-party
code to run on zAAP/zIIP. (A "fun" exercise.) If IBM bought NEON (or
zPrime) to keep a "lid" on things, another zPrime-like product would
appear soon thereafter, and then another, and another. There is no way
IBM could buy them all. Even if they could, it seems unlikely they would
put themselves in such a vulnerable position.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
[email protected]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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