On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Edward Jaffe<edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > That might be their objective. If so, it's a failed strategy. > > IBM knows that many ISVs figured out long ago how to enable 3rd-party code > to run on zAAP/zIIP. (A "fun" exercise.) If IBM bought NEON (or zPrime) to > keep a "lid" on things, another zPrime-like product would appear soon > thereafter, and then another, and another. There is no way IBM could buy > them all. Even if they could, it seems unlikely they would put themselves in > such a vulnerable position.
Ah. So much for my theory! (Unless, as you intimate, they're just ignorant.) I was only about 43.6% serious anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
