Personally I do not understand what the rant is all about... I have heard of several patents for non-petroleum vehicles that seemed practical, viable, and all the other nice words, but have been blocked by someone unknown. In fact even university students of the past have developed new concepts that was just stalled. IMHO there are 2 main reasons for that, the first is that every country in the world tops up the petroleum prices with taxes that they cannot possibly afford to loose. The second and most obvious is that less oil will be consumed. So who is kicking up a stink about the disappeared concepts of the past?
IBM invests a lot of money in the development of the things that we seen in the POPS, and in the operating system in general. One way to get it back is to sell the oil(Software), the other is to sell the Motors that uses it(Hardware), if someone is allowed to just run their software on a machine that cannot be measured in the same way as a mainframe, how do you charge for it? How do you license it, without spending millions more on inventing the licensing structures for PC's that will not bring in the same amount of revenue? I bet anyone out there that if IBM created a look-like-windows, feel-like-windows, to run on the mainframe, that Microsoft will be onto them for patents so quick... In my opinion, the solution is this... For every machine that IBM sells to a customer, they should include effectively 2 separate machines in the same box. It would not cost that much more. The second must only be used for sysprog/development, and a monthly scrt report needs to be sent for that partition. This 'partition must be so separate, that it must have its own 'red-button' with absolutely no connection to the production one, and 2 internal model 27's, and a 3590 of its own. With the kind of networks that we have, this will suffice the need of any sysprog working inside that org to play to his heart's content. Additionally, again, because our networks have progressed to what it is today, IBM US, UK, NL, DUBAI, SA, INDIA, CHINA, must have one development beast, on which you can register a LPAR of your own, almost like registering a website, and pay a monthly fee, and play. Depending on the package you pay for will determine whether you will get FDR / HSM, RACF/ACF2, 3xmod3's of 5xmod27's, agreements can even exist that software vendors like CA will supply those sites with Beta versions, if the 'customer'(sysprog) wants for a slight reduction, almost like whether you take a website with/without adds. And I think the pricing should be relatively the same as 'web space'. And no, I do not smoke, and my lips are still dry. Regards Herbie 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
