I believe that it's a good thing for all of us even though I have no direct connection to JES3. More than one sysprog I've encountered at SHARE has related more or less this story:
My management is irked at the time/trouble/expense of having to convert to a new way of life just for IBM's convenience. They're asking why--if we have to blow all this time/trouble/expense anyway--don't we go window shopping for a whole new platform? That line of thinking is not good for any of us on IBM-Main. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM(R) JES3 Licensing Agreement Not being involved with JES3, I'm disinterested, but IBM has been offloading development of various software products to other software companies for some time. I wonder why they didn't just do that with JES3, and keep the brand & continuity. Regardless, it does sound like a good thing for Phoenix and JES3 customers. sas On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:15 PM Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > Ed Jaffe wrote: > >It's not every day someone acquires a core z/OS component from IBM > >(has that EVER happened?) so you can be sure we will treat it with > >the respect it deserves. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
