On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:00 AM, Dave Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am going to say something you gentlemen may not like... > > 1) Do you need the product? > 2) Do you need continued support, e.g. for legal and compliance reasons? > 3) is the company in financial difficulties? > > If the answer to all these is "yes" then paying the increased charges may > be your best option. If the company folds or files for protection it > matters not how many bits of paper you have, if there is no business to > honor the contracts you have then replacing the product may be much more > expensive. In my humble IBM is the biggest player of these sorts of games > and is doing an excellent job of squeezing the last drop of blood from its > traditional mainframe customers.. > > .. and throwing lawyers at a problem usually drives the costs up even > more... > I think you have some very valid points. I don't think that _any_ software company offers the following "option", but it is one that I'd like. What I _wish_ every company would "require" from a vendor is that should the vendor either "go out of business" or "sunset a product", that the customer would get a copy of the current source for the product, along with all internal documentation. No, I have not been taking any "funny pills". I do realize that perhaps all of the current z/OS vendors would like like hyenas if anyone asked this of them. Which is yet another reason that I am a FOSS advocate. An individual company might not be able to support "some product", but the "community" could possibly do so. > > Dave Wade > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
