David Cole wrote: >>I no longer believe that IBM is acting in the long term interest of >>the z/OS industry.
Well here is my $0.05 worth... How long did Amdahl last ? Os shall I say How far were they prepared to support the people that trusted them enough to buy a mainframe off them... I firmly believe in competition, but so many times I have seen someone coming into an area where someone else have been operating successfully for many years, undercutting the prices, not making if after the original guy went bust. I don't for one moment think IBM will end up like DEC that was bought by Olivetti?? Who was bought by Compaq who was bought by HP??? Yet, these new guys will come in, do the business for a few years, mainly because they want to make their investors money, but they will end up paying IBM so much in legitimate patent fees, that they will have to give it up. Unless it is someone big like Sun / HP, that actually have enough R&D resources available... They will just become another lot that will finally drive a few more mainframe users to HP / Dell. Regards Herbie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: 01 Desember 2007 10:44 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly As Ralph Johnson noted in his post to the FLEX-ES listserv, "Interesting!" http://www.sys-con.com/read/468626.htm IBM's intransigence in its so called "negotiations" with FSI, its belligerence with PSI, its bullying of T3 and its total shunning of Hercules has created a substantial threat to my business and the business of a hundred or two other small mainframe developers. I no longer believe that IBM is acting in the long term interest of the z/OS industry. Or more accurately, I believe that IBM's focus on z/OS has changed from growth to consolidation, and that they see themselves less as a hardware/software company and more as services company. Their actions with respect to the z/OS world are utterly anti-competitive and in total disregard of what is needed to nurture the long term health of this portion of their business. I have options. I will survive this threat. But as the z/OS options continue to narrow, many other small developers will either fail or shift their energies to more open arenas. This is a sad time for the mainframe business. Dave Cole REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cole Software WEB PAGE: http://www.colesoft.com 736 Fox Hollow Road VOICE: 540-456-8536 Afton, VA 22920 FAX: 540-456-6658 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele (USA), John Collins, Terrance Dolan (USA), Pamela Joseph (USA), Declan Lynch, John McNally, Malcolm Towlson Elavon Financial Services Limited, trading as Elavon, is regulated by the Financial Regulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
