On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:36:28 -0600, Jeffrey D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- > >I hope you realize that when IBM provides a $100 mainframe-in-a-box to >its employees, that IBM *owns* the products developed on thoses boxes. > >Do you want to give up your intellectual property rights in exchange >for a cheap mainframe development system? > Of course not, Jeffrey. As I understand the IBM internal program, the employee is responsible for getting the ThinkPad T60 however s/he can...the charge for the 1090 (it's actually more in the $75 range, it appears) is simply to cover IBM's costs in making and distributing the USB thingy.... The software supported is exactly the same software stacks that PWD members are offered (were offered?); the z/OS and z/VM ADCDs and the DemoPkg. All I am saying is that IBM seems to have a solution to the problems we have all been discussing here, and seems, at best, "reluctant", to let us have access to it. It certainly calls into question, in at least my humble opinion, IBM's commitment to the ISV community, save those ISVs (CA, Neon, BMC) that can afford their own z9 systems. DJ >Jeffrey D. Smith >Principal Product Architect >Farsight Systems Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
