On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 23:47, Jim Mulder <d10j...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > It is unfortunate that IBM does not make PL/X (which > has object-oriented capabilities) available > to ISVs. I have often wondered why the large ISVs did > not have their executives constantly hammering IBM > executives over this issue. Of course, in the older > days when IBM viewed ISVs as evil competitors and PL/xxx > as a competitive advantage, this would have been a > nonstarter. In later years when IBM started to see ISVs > as an important part of the mainframe ecosystem, things > might have been different (and almost were - we came > pretty close to making PL/X available one time years > ago, before some IBM executive squelched it).
PLX-370 *was* briefly available to ISVs around 1995, and I know at least one ISV who still has and uses it, however unwise that may be from the support POV. (Rummage, rummage.) I still have the ordering information here. It was $500 OTC, with "limited service available". In 1998 I remember trying to order it and being just too late... A few years later there was talk of PLX-390 being made available, but I think nothing came of that. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
