FLEX-ES & PWD

[David Day]

Just curious.  Does anyone know of any success stories vis-a-vis this 
platform and program?  Got the Flex machine through PWD, developed the 
software, brought it to market, and am now a successful ISV?

--
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

Re: FLEX-ES & PWD

[Robert Fake]

InfoSec, Inc. has been tremendously successful via this program.  We
utilized the tServer T30 (Thinkpad laptop) system to develop The Automated
Security Administrator (TASA) for CA-Top Secret, CA-ACF2 and IBM-RACF.  This
technology was acquired by CA in 2005 and is now known as eTrust Cleanup for
CA-Top Secret, CA-ACF2 and IBM-RACF.  There are many hundreds of clients of
this software today.

We have continued in the PWD and have developed another tool to enhance the
capabilities of CA-Top Secret administrators, called TSSadmin Express using
our T30.

Without the FLEX-ES platform and the PWD program, we would never have been
able to afford a mainframe computing platform to develop and market this
software.

I have written to IBM regarding this issue and like everyone else, have not
received much in the way of answers or direction.  Our license doesn't
expire until 12/2008, so we have time to make decisions once everything
plays out, but we are very concerned that if we do not have the FLEX-ES
platform to continue development and support and the cost effective IBM
software, the astronomical costs to a small business like ourselves could
put us out of business.

Bob

Robert B. Fake
President
InfoSec, Inc.
703-825-1202 (o)
571-241-5492 (c)
949-203-0406 (efax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit us at www.infosecinc.com

-Original Message-
From: David Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:14 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: FLEX-ES & PWD

Just curious.  Does anyone know of any success stories vis-a-vis this
platform and program?  Got the Flex machine through PWD, developed the
software, brought it to market, and am now a successful ISV? 

--
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

--
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

Re: FLEX-ES & PWD

[Charles Mills]

My former company (Firesign Computer) was a success story for the
predecessor machines and program. We acquired two P/390s through the PiD
program (mid-1990s). We developed Outbound which became (according to
Gartner) the number three inter-machine file transfer product (after
Connect:Direct and CA-XCOM6.2, and not counting FTP, which was not generally
an enterprise-market solution at the time). My company was acquired by ASG,
who still markets Outbound as ASG-Outbound Express. We had over 300 IBM
mainframe enterprise customers (predominantly OS/390) at the time of the
acquisition, and employed seventeen.

We never could have done it without the P/390s and the PiD and ADCD
programs.

Charles

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of David Day
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:14 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: FLEX-ES & PWD

Just curious.  Does anyone know of any success stories vis-a-vis this
platform and program?  Got the Flex machine through PWD, developed the
software, brought it to market, and am now a successful ISV? 

--
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