I remember IBM charging and then refunding for PartnerWorld. I passed on PLX: did not see committing to an unsupported language that might be withdrawn at any time (as it was).
IBM should open source PL/X 390. Hardly would give away their secret sauce at this point! PL/X 390 -- not current PL/X whatever it is called. Charles On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 22:05:34 -0400, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: >On 4/4/2023 10:09 AM, Schmitt, Michael wrote: >> The language I'd be interested in is PL/X 390. > > > >~1992 (don't hold me to that date), IBM announced that PartnerWorld was now >pay-to-play, $5K/year. We gritted our teeth and ponied up. One of the >benefits of the new scheme was that you could now get PL/X! So I asked for >it, got a nice minireel. > > > >A few months later, they changed their minds. I got to go to my VP with a >good news/bad news story, and they were the same piece of news: IBM was >refunding.most of our money. Seems POK had to pay RAL for the PL/X license, >which they couldn't get back, so they took it out of our $5K. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
