Interesting note from a list reader... BTW David, IBM Main list membership is free. The only membership requirement is to be interested in the list.
Don -----Original Message----- From: david kramf [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: mainframe "selling" points Hi Don, My name is David Kramf .I picked your name as one of the participants to this conversation that on the IBM mailing list digest. Hope I am not intruding. I am a very experienced MF developer . I quit my job several months ago to do more interesting stuff and trying to develop on my own. This is impossible to do on the MF platform because the MF is not accessible . You need to invest about 5K to 10K just to to have it (legally ) on your personal pc based, and there is no freely, updated and convenient system where you can buy your virtual server at a reasonable price. ( I pay 20 dollars a month for a linux VS. This is a reasonable price ). So I migrated myself to other platforms (OS X , LINUX , RUBY ) where you can easily get access to development platforms and can later distribute your product. If IBM won't make an effort to open the MF platform for the huge multitude of developers working and developing around the world on LINUX , smartphones , and tablets , then the MF is doomed. Thank You very much for reading , and I will be much obliged if you send this message to the mailing list ( I am not a member myself ). David Kramf Tel-Aviv , ISRAEL = ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
