On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 07:29, John Alvord wrote: > What a hobbiest license would do is make it possible for z/OS and z/VM > to survive the coming retirement of 80% of all the experienced > programmers. By creating a very inexpensive training/development > environment, IBM would make it possible for that market to continue.
Maybe IBM don't care ? Whats the business value of doing new stuff on it as opposed to new platforms ? The only thing I can see is helping to pin customers to their proprietary hardware and increase the value by upping the cost to switch that defines the actual price they can charge. That assumes customers are dumb .. which I guess makes it a good investment
