On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:31:29 +0900, Timothy Sipples, IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect <timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>In many countries, if you actually follow that advice the vendor could >successfully sue your business into oblivion. (Most businesses depend on >not being sued into oblivion.) Vendors could also unilaterally take a full >range of retaliatory actions if (when) they ever discover any such >tampering, and in many countries there'd be nothing you could do to prevent >that. As examples, the vendor could refuse to ship you patches, version >updates, deny any support to you whatsoever, and/or blacklist you and >everyone you've ever met (including your second cousin) from ever doing >business with the vendor (and the vendor's friends) ever again. And *then* >the vendor could sue your business into (further) oblivion. In many >countries you could also be liable for criminal penalties. (That'd be >personal fines and/or jail time.) Wow, that's pretty strong language Timothy! Is this the sort of threat that IBM issues to customers it accuses of "tampering"? Mark Anzani's letter[1] of August 24, 2009 on the subject of zPrime refers to "taking actions to interfere with the normal and intended operation of z/OS and IBM LIC". That sounds like a definition of "tampering" to me. So do Neon's zPrime customers also receive threats similar to yours? You have had a lot to say in the past on the benefits of zIIPs and zAAPs. What's your take on zPrime? Regards, Roger Bowler [1] http://blogs.datadirect.com/media/Communication%20Letter%20DataDirect.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
