On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:35:38 -0000, Phil Payne wrote: >IBM has already formally stated its position.
Except that they haven't. All information we have about IBM's supposed position on Hercules is entirely based on hearsay. Prove me wrong. If it isn't available online, you can send me a jpeg of the letter that contains the formal statement. I shall be most interested to see what it says. >Paragraphs 38ff are crucial - it has been suggested that these diagnostics, >and especially Amdahl's architecture validator, were the route by which >TIDA/TILA information got into Hercules and thence to both UMX and PSI. I can guess who suggested this, and the suggestion is entirely false. I don't even know what information is in the IBM-Amdahl TIDA/TILA. Whatever is in it, must be pretty ancient history by now. What I *can* tell you is that none of the functionality in Hercules was put there as a result of any external tool. The key point here is that I *know* how Hercules was developed, whereas you are only guessing. Your suggestion that UMX and PSI copied their technology from Hercules also seems highly unlikely. Sounds to me more like somebody else's sour grapes. If you think your assertion has any validity, why don't you make your accusations directly to UMX and PSI. Where I *do* agree with you, on the other hand, is the futility of writing to Sam Palmisano, coupled with the inadvisability of citing Hercules as justification. However, both you and I have been known to be wrong in the past, so who knows we may be proved wrong on this occasion too :-) I also think that the inclusion of my "z/Architecture and z/OS belong to us all" manifesto is unlikely to be well received, to say the least. Although frankly I doubt he gives a fig what any of us think, even if he does bother to read the letter which I doubt. Regards, Roger Bowler http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
