I think there are positive ways to view this. - According to one report Broadcom has a history of buying troubled companies and turning them around. - If prices go up, some sites will be forced to drop products that are not used much, or are otherwise not earning their keep, in favor of alternatives. This would, IMHO, strengthen the quality of competitors' offerings, since there is more potential cash flow at higher prices.
OREXXMan JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one character at a time (Unix/C style), or one record at a time? IBM has been looking for an HLL for program products; REXX is that language. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Mike Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/13/2018 8:45 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > <snip> > >> >> Goal was acquired by Legent, which itself was formed when Morino >> Associates >> and Duquesne Systems merged. They didn't use my suggested name for that >> merger: Dorito. >> >> I was at Morino Associates when the merger with Duquesne and subsequent > renaming to 'Legent' occurred. 'Legent' is just an anagram of 'Gentle'; the > rumor was that the company paid $100k to some firm to come up with that > name and the new 'skid mark' Legent logo... > > Mike Shaw > MVS/QuickRef Support Group > Chicago-Soft, Ltd. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
