Yes, it is nice to hear from you.
Well, having DX go to open source had a couple of motivations. One, it was
hard to continue to try to run a software business inside the IBM Research
labs in general, and certainly for what is really a small market
(visualization tools) by IBM standards. So, something needed to be done.
We wanted the software to live and to continue using it. In addition,
there were a few thousand DX users worldwide. Simply closing the doors
would not have been very acceptable to them. The solution was making DX
open source. It was an experiment, because it was before IBM embraced open
source in a major way and it was a fairly large, IBM licensed program
product, that was to be "converted". In hindsight, the experiment appears
to be successful. The software continues to live and grow, and the number
of users continues to expand.
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Lloyd A. Treinish
Mathematical Sciences
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You probably do not remember me, I used to work at IBM years ago. It is
good to
see that you finally got DX in the "open" world. I have been using it for
some time.
Steve Poole...
