Tony Harminc wrote:
| And yet again IBM is trying to prescribe in ever more
| detail what kind of computing you can do on your
| system.
I do not think that is quite right. I don't think the intrusiveness is
intended. It is a byproduct.
What it seems to me that IBM is trying to do is to provide lower-cost
mechanisms for developing and running notionally new z/Architecture
applications without at the same time compromising its revenue flows from
legacy mainframe cash cows. (Many of these new applications turn out, in my
experience anyway, to be the same old ill-conceived and badly written COBOL
applications rewritten in equally bad Java.)
None of this is altruistic, but neither is it reprehensible. It is business as
usual. IBM has always repudiated the notion that it is an eleemosynary
organization.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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