On 4/10/2013 5:30 PM, David Griffiths wrote:
On 4 October 2013 06:03, Brian Westerman <[email protected]> wrote:
Unfortunately, as many of you have pointed out in this thread, IBM/CA/BMC software is
seen as the "premium" choice for Systems Automation software, even though
feature-for-feature, and cost-wise we have them well and truly beaten.
Great post Brian. It sounds like image counts for a lot in this world.
I thought that if it was easier and cheaper for single developers or
small companies to both develop and market their software that you
could potentially end up with a flourishing ecosystem of low cost or
free software, but maybe I'm just being naive. I wonder what would
need to change to make customers more comfortable with that model?
E.g. in terms of support from IBM.
IBM published a redbook yonks ago wrt porting open source software to
z/OS Unix and released lots of useful tools as a result
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/bpxa1ty1.html.
Those tools are now stale and in serious need of a refresh. z/OS 2.1 has
added C runtime functions for extended streams so porting the current
version of autotools will be a lot easier. Once that's done porting up
to date
open source software becomes a reality. IBM should run another redbook
with new, better open source tools and offer some form of support.
Cheers,
Dave
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