Phoenix won the shootout at Share, so it's good news to me. The enthusiasm of Ed Jaffe and his team should ensure JES3 is in good hands. (and the boots!).
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 6:51 AM zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed. And often doing it quietly—Optim, for example (the former Princeton > Softech stuff) was unloaded on UNICOM a few years ago, with zero publicity. > UNICOM owns it lock, stock, and barrel, it seems, but lets IBM keep selling > it (for some of the revenue, I assume). Very weird. This JES3 deal makes > more sense, I think (not that I know the details, I mean "on the face of > it"). > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:24 PM Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
