On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 13:11:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>Perhaps more important than functionality to a small shop is the issue >of intended user base size. It's hard to justify a product that will be >utilized by only two or three users, no matter how functionally superior >it is, unless the purveyors of the product offer a low, per seat pricing >model - which can be somewhat uncommon for System z software. Years ago I attempted to side-step this issue by approaching the Australasian business partner to license z/XDC rather than expecting individual customers to have it. Licensing, the bane of all z software, reared its ugly head immediately. - could I use it on customer code ? - what about in-house at customers site(s) - portable iicence ?. - what if I developed code: who would own it, who would license it ? ... All became too hard, and got knocked on the head. Shane .... (and yes Rex, I was being somewhat flippant - but note I said "free", not free) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
