IBM sues PSI - a zSeries emulator manufacturer.

chaye wala

Dec 5, 2006

This article in information week covers the story:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601550

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5:57 pm

Re: IBM sues PSI - a zSeries emulator manufacturer.

kvshetye

Dec 8, 2006

With this news now I strongly feel that IBM is willing people to use
hercules to learn about mainframes. Why IBM till date did not take
any action against hercules?? After all it is going to help IBM if
more people know about mainframes. It will avoid mainframe resource
shortage in the market. There were instances where people were
moving away from mainframes just because it was difficult to find
human resources in Mainframes.

Now the question is why IBM is not supporting hercules openly? Is
it because they have business partnership with Flex-Es? I would
like to propose, IBM to make some subsystems ***FREE*** like CICS,
ISPF, COBOL, may be with restrictions i.e. not shipping high-end
functionalities so that people can use them for learning puposes and
nobody will/can use it in production/development. Is it possible?
If any IBMer is reading this post please THINK.... and help IBM by
growing Mainframe resources.

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articleID=196601550
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6:14 am

Re: IBM sues PSI - a zSeries emulator manufacturer.

george

Dec 8, 2006

I would like to bring to your attention that IBM seems to no longer have
a relationship with FLEX-ES. As of November 1, there are no more
licenses being issued for use on FLEX. Any current customers (as of
11/1) can continue to use and get support from IBM, but no new customers.

George

Dave Wade wrote:
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>
> From: "kvshetye" <kvshetye@... <mailto:kvshetye%40yahoo.com>>
> To: <hercules-390@yahoogroups.com <mailto:hercules-390%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:14 AM
> Subject: [hercules-390] Re: IBM sues PSI - a zSeries emulator
> manufacturer.
>
> > With this news now I strongly feel that IBM is willing people to use
> > hercules to learn about mainframes. Why IBM till date did not take
> > any action against hercules??
>
> Because it would be more difficult....
> ... and you don't know they havn't. The terms of any settlement might
> be to
> keep it secret...
>
> > After all it is going to help IBM if
> > more people know about mainframes. It will avoid mainframe resource
> > shortage in the market. There were instances where people were
> > moving away from mainframes just because it was difficult to find
> > human resources in Mainframes.
> >
>
> I don't think this is true. There plenty of folks with Mainframe
> experience,
> just they are older and wiser and won't work for peanuts, and the
> younger IT
> managers don't know how to manage and control them...
>
> > Now the question is why IBM is not supporting hercules openly? Is
> > it because they have business partnership with Flex-Es?
>
> Note that FLEX uses a dongle to limit MIPS
>
> > I would
> > like to propose, IBM to make some subsystems ***FREE*** like CICS,
> > ISPF, COBOL, may be with restrictions i.e. not shipping high-end
> > functionalities so that people can use them for learning puposes and
> > nobody will/can use it in production/development. Is it possible?
> > If any IBMer is reading this post please THINK.... and help IBM by
> > growing Mainframe resources.
> >
> >
>
> They have been asked many times...
>
> > --- In hercules-390@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:hercules-390%40yahoogroups.com>, chaye wala <chayewala@...>
> > wrote:
>
>

12:16 pm

Re: IBM sues PSI - a zSeries emulator manufacturer.

halfmeg

Dec 8, 2006

> george wrote:

> I would like to bring to your attention that IBM seems to no longer
> have a relationship with FLEX-ES. As of November 1, there are no
> more licenses being issued for use on FLEX. Any current customers
> (as of 11/1) can continue to use and get support from IBM, but no
> new customers.

><snip>

IBM had some control with the FLEX-ES solution, think throttled down
processing capability. Although the thread title states 'emulator',
the PSI site states z/OS runs on the bare metal and that their
offering would offer benefits for perhaps 90% of the existing
Mainframe installations.

Since it isn't under IBM's control, the MIPS would depend entirely on
the processors brought in to handle the workload. How would the
rental cost of z/OS or other products in such an environment would be
determined ?

PSI's notice of the action on their home page:

http://www.platform-solutions.com

Phil - curious to see what happens

2:29 pm