> Would there be sufficient community interest to maintain it? If they only open sourced BM/READ? Probably not. If they open sourced the whole suite from DCF through BM/READ? Probably yes.
> On what variety of platforms? Well, a Linux port would be 99% of the way to *bsd and Unix ports? Windoze you probably only need to worry about 64 bit. > They'd need also to open source the content. I doubt it. > Some years ago, the PoOps outgrew the capacity of Bookie. What > refracturing (sic) would be necessary to extend that capacity? You'd probably need to support a legacy format and an enhanced format, with most of the code common to both. > Long ago, we compared prices If they open sourced it then there would be no price. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"? On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:45:02 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >> >> And I will once again reiterate the futile request to have Bookmanager >> format be returned to service :) > >Or to have Bookmanager format open sourced...? Seriously, what's in it >for IBM to sit on a data format it no longer uses or supports? Surely >others would take it and run with it. > Would there be sufficient community interest to maintain it? On what variety of platforms? PDF and HTML readers, in contrast, seem to support themselves. They'd need also to open source the content. Some years ago, the PoOps outgrew the capacity of Bookie. What refracturing would be necessary to extend that capacity? I suspect IBM investigated and shied away. It's irritating to find a manual split, like Assembler Services, at an arbitrary point in the alphabet merely to conform to processor capacity. Long ago, we compared prices of Bookie reader for Solaris(?), XA(?), PC. The difference exceeded the cost of the PC. Easy business decision. --gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
