PSI had a potential copyright violation. NEON in not violating copyright, but may be causing customers to violate license agreements. Big difference. IBM goes after company (PSI) or IBMs own customer base that is using zPrime.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Neon's zPrime - IBM response from July 10 > > 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/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
