On 3/10/2013 11:47 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
The mainframe has massive applications that if they go down the amount of
time to recover the application and/or fix it could take many hours/days
that costs the business income. Or cause an LPAR wide outage that affects
many more working applications (MQ, DB2, IMS, CICS). That is bad for the
bottom line.
Any "freeware", "Shareware", etc... brought in to a mainframe environment
will eventually become a critical piece of production applications - no
matter how much you say " THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION"
But CICS is now touting PHP for CICS applications for mobile devices.
That's open source software.
To keep up with the Jones the mainframe has to adapt. If a vendor like
Rocket offer support for the
open source software that's all well and good. But that's still vendor
lock in isn't it?
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