On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
> Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >> Have you looked at the price of RedHat stock lately? There's plenty of >> money in free: you charge for support! >> > > I certainly agree! But I'm not sure it's related (unless that's the point > I'm missing). So let's say you give me source code (free speech) and I > compile it and use it (free beer), without needing your help because you > wrote it so well. Didn't I just get beer for free? > > Sure. But most _companies_ won't really depend on 3rd party source to be maintained in-house. They, generally, want company-specific programs to be designed, written, and maintained in house. But things like compilers, operating system, data base management system, and such, they generally want a legal contract, with penalties, from an industry reputable company, such a RedHat (for Linux + major software), or even EnterpriseDB (advanced PostgreSQL). The management here, as best as I can tell, has decided (as they have said it) "We are not in the IT business". So they are "cloud sourcing" the entire infrastructure, starting with z/OS. Actually, the z/OS processes are being converted to some other platform (Windows, I think) as a SaaS (as I understand it). Eventually I think that the company itself will only have some application designers as full time employees. The hardware and non-application software will all be handled by some other 3rd party. We don't have any DBAs any more. Another company does all the "technical data base stuff" for us. -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
