In <[email protected]>, on 04/28/2011 at 04:14 PM, Rodrigo Monteiro <[email protected]> said:
>Not sure if this was already discussed, Perennially. >I recently posted the following message on zNextGen discussion >forum: >http://www.share.org/Discussion/tabid/77/aff/17/aft/284/afv/topic/Default.aspx Unless and until IBM believes that there is a business case for licensing z/OS under Hercules, it isn't going to happen. >In your opinion, will it ever be possible to see an "Academic" >version of our favorite mainframe software? IBM could do that by offering steep discounts to universities. Currently the major sticking point is that IBM is only offering discounts for strictly academic use. The schools aren't interested in running mainframes that they aren't allowed to use for administrative tasks. As with Hercules licensing, it won't happen unless IBM sees a business case. I'd love to see both Hercules licensing and large academic discounts, but I see no basis for hope on either. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
