Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
David is right, especially in his statement "Our ISV world needs new players" .Our eco system was narrowed by the three large vendors that bought many of the small vendors and resellers. ITschak *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM David Cole wrote: > Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? > > I have gotten many approaches over the years, > But Izzi got my attention because... >- They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. >- They already know what z/XDC is. >- They believe in z/XDC! >- And they offer marketing, financial and support resources > which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), > but to grow both in marketing resources > and in broadening the platforms/environments > in which z/XDC can be used. > > Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. > We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources > that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as >- USS support, >- Browser and VS Code interfaces, >- COBOL source, > > Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. > Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. > Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! > > Dave Cole > > PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) > > > > > At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: > >I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people > >creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who > >should have stuck to the Air Force. > > > >I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. > > > >Doug Fuerst > > > > > >-- Original Message -- > > From "Phil Smith III" > >To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM > >Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft > > > >> > https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition > >> > >>Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, > >>culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly > >>scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! > >> > >>-- > >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >-- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
David is right, especially in his statement "Our ISV world needs new players" .Our eco system was narrowed by the three large vendors that bought many of the small vendors and resellers. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * nbsp; *|* On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM Itschak Mugzach wrote: > David is right, especially in his statement "Our ISV world needs new > players" .Our eco system was narrowed by the three large vendors that > bought many of the small vendors and resellers. > > ITschak > > *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere > Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, > zLinux and IBM I **| * > > *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* > *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM David Cole wrote: > >> Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? >> >> I have gotten many approaches over the years, >> But Izzi got my attention because... >>- They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. >>- They already know what z/XDC is. >>- They believe in z/XDC! >>- And they offer marketing, financial and support resources >> which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), >> but to grow both in marketing resources >> and in broadening the platforms/environments >> in which z/XDC can be used. >> >> Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. >> We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources >> that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as >>- USS support, >>- Browser and VS Code interfaces, >>- COBOL source, >> >> Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. >> Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. >> Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! >> >> Dave Cole >> >> PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) >> >> >> >> >> At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: >> >I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people >> >creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who >> >should have stuck to the Air Force. >> > >> >I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. >> > >> >Doug Fuerst >> > >> > >> >-- Original Message -- >> > From "Phil Smith III" >> >To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> >Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM >> >Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft >> > >> >> >> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition >> >> >> >>Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, >> >>culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly >> >>scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! >> >> >> >>-- >> >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >> >-- >> >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> -- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: ISPF edit macro to sort and delete duplicate records
Hi Peter, I found this. 🙂 Kind regards, Lindy /* Rexx */ "ISREDIT MACRO NOPROCESS" "ISPEXEC CONTROL ERRORS RETURN" "Isredit (LastLine) = LINENUM .ZLAST " PrevLn = "" DelTxt = "DELETE ME" Do Index = 1 to LastLine "Isredit (DataLn) = LINE" Index If DataLn == PrevLn Then Do "Isredit LINE" Index " = (DelTxt)" End PrevLn = DataLn End "Isredit Exclude All" "Isredit Find '"Deltxt"' All" "Isredit Delete All NX" "Isredit Reset" From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Peter Ten Eyck <04d3761a18a7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 8:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF edit macro to sort and delete duplicate records EXTERNAL Greetings, Anyone know of an ISPF edit macro to sort and delete duplicate records within PDS member or dataset? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Strange file behaviour in Unix
There could be more process that that create these, but if I do something like: ls -l * r | more I will see a /tmp/sh??? created that has "ls -l *" in it. Basically if I issue any command and then do r | more I will see the last command I entered. I have always just assumed that the "/tmp/sh???" files were temporary files created when doing certain shell commands/processes. On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:48:17 +, Colin Paice wrote: >Looking at the SMF START 92-11 for individual Unix files, I'm seeing 100s >of records like pathname /tmp/shbdFEgaeEA reads=0 write=0 directory reads 8. > >What is going on ? what does dir reads> 0 but no reads act mean? >what is using this file - and can we stop it(grin) > >Colin > >-- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Well done Dave. Succession planning is under rated and hard to do. Thanks for thinking forward and ignore the FUD. -- Matt Hogstrom “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein > On Jan 31, 2025, at 02:48, David Cole wrote: > > Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzi Software acquires ColeSoft
The Izzi Software website (https://izzisoftware.com) says: "Izzi is interested in companies with a history of providing both innovative solutions and excellent service. We’re seeking founder-led or founder-owned organizations with less than $10M annual recurring revenue who have great products and loyal customers we can invest in to grow." Why does founder-led or owned make a difference as to whether a company is a good acquisition? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzi Software acquires ColeSoft
Wildass guess: because it means the ownership and $ are thus simpler? You're less likely to have to deal with a half-dozen-plus VCs, each of whom thought this was a 100x company and now wants to make at least 10x. I agree, it's an odd requirement! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schmitt, Michael Sent: Friday, January 31, 2025 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Izzi Software acquires ColeSoft The Izzi Software website (https://izzisoftware.com) says: "Izzi is interested in companies with a history of providing both innovative solutions and excellent service. We’re seeking founder-led or founder-owned organizations with less than $10M annual recurring revenue who have great products and loyal customers we can invest in to grow." Why does founder-led or owned make a difference as to whether a company is a good acquisition? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
I know Dave and I have used z/XDC continuously since the 1980s. My concern is more applicable to the general case when an M&A company acquires a mainframe software company; these things usually happen: 1) Staff is reduced 2) Product(s) are renamed 3) Prices are raised and that is invariably followed by a reduction in the quality of customer support, and usually a halt to future enhancement of the product(s). Cases in point: Bain Capital's acquisition of BMC and then Compuware; Precisely's acquisition of Syncsort; Broadcom's acquisition of CA (CA's acquisition habits before CA itself was acquired is a similar story). Maybe this won't happen in this case with Izzy/Big Band; time will tell. When those at the top of a company did not start as software developers, IMO the future of high quality support for the customers of that enterprise is dim. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 9:40 AM Phil Smith III wrote: > Well, this thread turned contentious...not my intent! My ramblings on the > topic follow; I expect to be beaten up for it, but hope we can have a > meaningful discussion (speculation) instead. > > Yes, it's hard to see how a new mainframe company can do much more than > eke out an existence and then sell to one of the big dogs. OTOH ColeSoft > has been a respected player for quite a while, and this is Izzy's first and > thus (so far) only product, so there's no *particular* reason to expect big > changes. And there are a few other small companies who soldier on against > all odds. > > My concern would be greater with the more common acquisition by a big > player, who "optimizes" things (cuts staff beyond the bone) and then > wonders why $x+$y (where x = big player revenue and y = acquired company's > revenue) adds up to something less than $(x+y). Of course they get away > with it with their Board and stockholders, because the net is still more > than $x, so look, we "successfully managed the acquisition and grew"! Never > mind what you did to the employees, customers, and product, and how much > opportunity you squandered in the process. A smaller acquirer is > (presumably) more focused, plus they can't fall back on "We can get rid of > all these people because we have other people, and software engineers can > be bought by the pound anyway". > > So I'm cautiously optimistic. I echo Doug's concern that none of the named > people have any known track record in the mainframe world. That doesn't > have to be significant--being noisy/visible doesn't prove anything about > competence. I was not impressed that the site had "z/Series" and > "i/Series", 20 *YEARS* after the zSeries and iSeries names were killed, but > they promptly and cheerfully fixed that when I pointed it out. > > My other concern is that BigBand's tagline is "We harmonize capital, > culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies", plus they say "We buy > B2B SaaS businesses that are growing and profitable, with ARR in the range > of $1M to $10M". Aside from the missing serial comma (JOKE, let's not start > THAT flamewar!), that SaaS mission seems orthogonal to ColeSoft, so there's > some WTF there. > > They seem to have acquired Workzone and Inphonite previously, so it's not > like they went totally off-piste in their first outing. But $1M to $10M are > basically toy companies these days, so they're either destined to be small > fish (like ColeSoft, who has awesome products but a fairly small and > shrinking market of hardcore z/OS developers, mostly vendors--and now we're > back to the "Big Three" problem again) or else BigBand thinks they have the > magic formula to buy into the next Instagram when it's tiny. That's...pure > gambling, sorry, and leaves me unconvinced by BigBand's model. Which still > doesn't have to relate to ColeSoft/Izzy, since there IS apparently a > sustainable revenue stream there. I'd also note that Workzone and Inphonite > each have TWO job openings posted, so they aren't exactly showing a lot of > investment/growth. (Yes, it's possible that they just hired a shedload of > folks, but what are the odds?) > > I thus choose to see this acquisition as (mostly) good news. ColeSoft's > customers are committed, because the products are so solid and unique, and > so whatever happens, there will be a revenue stream that someone will want. > Worst case, BigBand/Izzy implode and one of the Big Three picks up the > ashes. That isn't ideal--best case would have been Dave Cole finding the > Fountain of Youth and continuing forever--but it's better than Dave > retiring and having the products die of pure neglect. > > Time will tell, eh? > > ...phsiii > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Yes, this post touched a lot of buttons. Thanks for the good insight Phil. My 2 cents' worth comes from product marketing and mainframe market perspective. I spend a good deal of my year researching and writing about trends in enterprise IT. As you all know, the mainframe remains relevant and an integral part of large enterprise and gov business/IT service delivery. What's trending in software initiatives right now -- e.g. what biz/gov are willing spending money on -- is app modernization, data governance/SIEM, document management/digitization, analytics/BI. If you want to see what research is being consumed by orgs big enough to have a mainframe, Andrew White (Gartner) posts top 20 research reads here - https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7193311183750246403/. I see the ColeSoft acquisition as the beginning of several by the holding company to address some of the trends I mention above (if they're smart). Regarding their investment/growth, as many companies do, this could be a play just to get in the game by the holding company in acquiring a company simply for its paying customers. As far as acquisitions followed by sacking workforce, I've been through 3 of these and it's the general MO of "tech" holding companies who are run by CFO-types (sorry for soapboxing). ColeSoft in its capability to debug assembler and C/C++, is essentially contributing to the glut of app modernization initiatives going on now and the help is definitely needed (raise your hand if you can even work in assembler and you're younger than 30 years old). I too see this as good news for we who make a living in the mainframe space. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:17:27 -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >Well done Dave. Succession planning is under rated and hard to do. Thanks >for thinking forward and ignore the FUD. The other thing, speaking as someone who sold a smallish enterprise software company to a rollup: If you are a user of z/XDC you should be applauding this. Not to be morbid here, but Dave isn't going to be around and coding forever. Hopefully this move provides some continuity for the users. Even if it is at a higher price, well then at least you have a choice: keep paying or drop it. If Cole Software simply evaporated then you would not even have a choice. Also, and speaking only for myself, not Dave of course, I worked 60-hour weeks for over ten years to build my software company. I put every penny into capitalizing (translation: buying computers, running ads and paying salaries) my little company. I could not afford a significant IRA and we could not afford 401(k) fees until fairly late in the game. A "liquidity event" (as it is euphemistically called in the trade) was my only hope of a retirement plan. I am still coding, and Dave says he wants to keep coding, but I at least no longer had the energy to lie awake night after night worrying about some damned detail of running a software company. For those of you who have not done it, running a small software company is hard, keep-you-up-at-night work. I had a key manager's husband be the victim of murder by the jealous husband of his paramour -- you think that's an easy employee issue to deal with? I had two instances of sexual harassment significant enough to warrant formal counseling for the employees involved. I had our then only salesperson quit the morning of our first-ever trade show. (And my mother had passed away the day before.) I didn't want to deal with those things for the rest of my life. I love coding. Not that stuff. So I sold the company. Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Mainframe Culture
Watching the latest exchange with interest. Since becoming a CICS Sysprog at the beginning of my career in 1987, and especially since finishing my Master's degree with a focus on the humanity of the mainframe in 2021, I've been struck by how critical the mainframe culture is to the success of the technology, and particularly the curmudgeons who keep it running, and yet how critical the denizens of said culture tend to be. Mainframe: a technology that's been around so long that it's often operated by a crank. I've followed the history of mainframe pricing, acquisitions (I used to work for a company that I jokingly described as "an acquired taste"), and efforts to stabilize products that refused to die. And while I agree that there has always been plenty to complain about, I think that our propensity to make dark of everything new is actually a limiting behavior. What other platform experiences such constant resistance to any novelty, especially if it didn't originate with Big Blue? And yet, what other platform could stand in the light of the scrutiny we relentlessly apply to our home platform? I think that the mainframe is an unlimited greenfield opportunity, but I also recognize that new entrants into the field have great trouble surviving, mainly because no one wants to welcome newcomers. /rant Reg Harbeck, MA +1.403.605.7986 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: [EXTERNAL] Mainframe Culture
I'll take a green screen over a blue screen any day! :-D Reg Harbeck, MA +1.403.605.7986 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: January 31, 2025 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Mainframe Culture Reg, Did you mean "greenfield opportunity" or did you mean "greenscreen opportunity"? 😉 Sorry, it is Friday afternoon... Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Reg Harbeck Sent: Friday, January 31, 2025 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Mainframe Culture Watching the latest exchange with interest. Since becoming a CICS Sysprog at the beginning of my career in 1987, and especially since finishing my Master's degree with a focus on the humanity of the mainframe in 2021, I've been struck by how critical the mainframe culture is to the success of the technology, and particularly the curmudgeons who keep it running, and yet how critical the denizens of said culture tend to be. Mainframe: a technology that's been around so long that it's often operated by a crank. I've followed the history of mainframe pricing, acquisitions (I used to work for a company that I jokingly described as "an acquired taste"), and efforts to stabilize products that refused to die. And while I agree that there has always been plenty to complain about, I think that our propensity to make dark of everything new is actually a limiting behavior. What other platform experiences such constant resistance to any novelty, especially if it didn't originate with Big Blue? And yet, what other platform could stand in the light of the scrutiny we relentlessly apply to our home platform? I think that the mainframe is an unlimited greenfield opportunity, but I also recognize that new entrants into the field have great trouble surviving, mainly because no one wants to welcome newcomers. /rant Reg Harbeck, MA +1.403.605.7986 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: [EXTERNAL] Mainframe Culture
Reg, Did you mean "greenfield opportunity" or did you mean "greenscreen opportunity"? 😉 Sorry, it is Friday afternoon... Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Reg Harbeck Sent: Friday, January 31, 2025 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Mainframe Culture Watching the latest exchange with interest. Since becoming a CICS Sysprog at the beginning of my career in 1987, and especially since finishing my Master's degree with a focus on the humanity of the mainframe in 2021, I've been struck by how critical the mainframe culture is to the success of the technology, and particularly the curmudgeons who keep it running, and yet how critical the denizens of said culture tend to be. Mainframe: a technology that's been around so long that it's often operated by a crank. I've followed the history of mainframe pricing, acquisitions (I used to work for a company that I jokingly described as "an acquired taste"), and efforts to stabilize products that refused to die. And while I agree that there has always been plenty to complain about, I think that our propensity to make dark of everything new is actually a limiting behavior. What other platform experiences such constant resistance to any novelty, especially if it didn't originate with Big Blue? And yet, what other platform could stand in the light of the scrutiny we relentlessly apply to our home platform? I think that the mainframe is an unlimited greenfield opportunity, but I also recognize that new entrants into the field have great trouble surviving, mainly because no one wants to welcome newcomers. /rant Reg Harbeck, MA +1.403.605.7986 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe physical tape backup
Actually, most/many of the generic distributed storage devices (NetApp for example) allow for physical tape to be attached to it. So, if you write your virtual-tape to some generic storage device - the ability to have a tape copy created is available to you. I know that Luminex, Optica and Broadcom Vtape all allow for the writing of Virtual-Tape to any generic storage device you may already have in-use in your data center. Then, simply attach any LTO tape library to the NetApp device and you have exportable physical tape backups that can be sent off-site for air-gap storage requirements. Russell Witt CA 1 Flexible Storage Developer Broadcom russell.w...@broadcom.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, < 059ecf7fe8fe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI Cloud > with our Cloud Data Sets feature to send your tape data directly to > cloud object storage. > If you choose the public cloud option, then the storage is already > external to your site and should meet whatever you're looking for. > Furthermore, object storage enables you to create immutable buckets > where you output your data. > More information can be found here: > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud-data.html > > Feel free to reach out if you'd like some more information. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
A, retirement is great. I no longer have to kowtow to managers who only got their jobs through privilege. Nepotism, favoritism, or white. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, January 31, 2025, 1:28 PM, Charles Mills wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:17:27 -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >Well done Dave. Succession planning is under rated and hard to do. Thanks >for thinking forward and ignore the FUD. The other thing, speaking as someone who sold a smallish enterprise software company to a rollup: If you are a user of z/XDC you should be applauding this. Not to be morbid here, but Dave isn't going to be around and coding forever. Hopefully this move provides some continuity for the users. Even if it is at a higher price, well then at least you have a choice: keep paying or drop it. If Cole Software simply evaporated then you would not even have a choice. Also, and speaking only for myself, not Dave of course, I worked 60-hour weeks for over ten years to build my software company. I put every penny into capitalizing (translation: buying computers, running ads and paying salaries) my little company. I could not afford a significant IRA and we could not afford 401(k) fees until fairly late in the game. A "liquidity event" (as it is euphemistically called in the trade) was my only hope of a retirement plan. I am still coding, and Dave says he wants to keep coding, but I at least no longer had the energy to lie awake night after night worrying about some damned detail of running a software company. For those of you who have not done it, running a small software company is hard, keep-you-up-at-night work. I had a key manager's husband be the victim of murder by the jealous husband of his paramour -- you think that's an easy employee issue to deal with? I had two instances of sexual harassment significant enough to warrant formal counseling for the employees involved. I had our then only salesperson quit the morning of our first-ever trade show. (And my mother had passed away the day before.) I didn't want to deal with those things for the rest of my life. I love coding. Not that stuff. So I sold the company. Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe physical tape backup
Just in my case attach DLM VTE to physical tape and send as generic backup to any LTO drives On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 05:03 Russell Witt, < 025adb32e6d7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Actually, most/many of the generic distributed storage devices (NetApp for > example) allow for physical tape to be attached to it. So, if you write > your virtual-tape to some generic storage device - the ability to have a > tape copy created is available to you. I know that Luminex, Optica and > Broadcom Vtape all allow for the writing of Virtual-Tape to any generic > storage device you may already have in-use in your data center. Then, > simply attach any LTO tape library to the NetApp device and you have > exportable physical tape backups that can be sent off-site for air-gap > storage requirements. > > Russell Witt > CA 1 Flexible Storage Developer > Broadcom > russell.w...@broadcom.com > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Peter > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup > > We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, < > 059ecf7fe8fe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > Hello Peter, > > > > I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI Cloud > > with our Cloud Data Sets feature to send your tape data directly to > > cloud object storage. > > If you choose the public cloud option, then the storage is already > > external to your site and should meet whatever you're looking for. > > Furthermore, object storage enables you to create immutable buckets > > where you output your data. > > More information can be found here: > > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html > > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud-data.html > > > > Feel free to reach out if you'd like some more information. > > > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Well, this thread turned contentious...not my intent! My ramblings on the topic follow; I expect to be beaten up for it, but hope we can have a meaningful discussion (speculation) instead. Yes, it's hard to see how a new mainframe company can do much more than eke out an existence and then sell to one of the big dogs. OTOH ColeSoft has been a respected player for quite a while, and this is Izzy's first and thus (so far) only product, so there's no *particular* reason to expect big changes. And there are a few other small companies who soldier on against all odds. My concern would be greater with the more common acquisition by a big player, who "optimizes" things (cuts staff beyond the bone) and then wonders why $x+$y (where x = big player revenue and y = acquired company's revenue) adds up to something less than $(x+y). Of course they get away with it with their Board and stockholders, because the net is still more than $x, so look, we "successfully managed the acquisition and grew"! Never mind what you did to the employees, customers, and product, and how much opportunity you squandered in the process. A smaller acquirer is (presumably) more focused, plus they can't fall back on "We can get rid of all these people because we have other people, and software engineers can be bought by the pound anyway". So I'm cautiously optimistic. I echo Doug's concern that none of the named people have any known track record in the mainframe world. That doesn't have to be significant--being noisy/visible doesn't prove anything about competence. I was not impressed that the site had "z/Series" and "i/Series", 20 *YEARS* after the zSeries and iSeries names were killed, but they promptly and cheerfully fixed that when I pointed it out. My other concern is that BigBand's tagline is "We harmonize capital, culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies", plus they say "We buy B2B SaaS businesses that are growing and profitable, with ARR in the range of $1M to $10M". Aside from the missing serial comma (JOKE, let's not start THAT flamewar!), that SaaS mission seems orthogonal to ColeSoft, so there's some WTF there. They seem to have acquired Workzone and Inphonite previously, so it's not like they went totally off-piste in their first outing. But $1M to $10M are basically toy companies these days, so they're either destined to be small fish (like ColeSoft, who has awesome products but a fairly small and shrinking market of hardcore z/OS developers, mostly vendors--and now we're back to the "Big Three" problem again) or else BigBand thinks they have the magic formula to buy into the next Instagram when it's tiny. That's...pure gambling, sorry, and leaves me unconvinced by BigBand's model. Which still doesn't have to relate to ColeSoft/Izzy, since there IS apparently a sustainable revenue stream there. I'd also note that Workzone and Inphonite each have TWO job openings posted, so they aren't exactly showing a lot of investment/growth. (Yes, it's possible that they just hired a shedload of folks, but what are the odds?) I thus choose to see this acquisition as (mostly) good news. ColeSoft's customers are committed, because the products are so solid and unique, and so whatever happens, there will be a revenue stream that someone will want. Worst case, BigBand/Izzy implode and one of the Big Three picks up the ashes. That isn't ideal--best case would have been Dave Cole finding the Fountain of Youth and continuing forever--but it's better than Dave retiring and having the products die of pure neglect. Time will tell, eh? ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Congratulations Dave, Pay no attention to the nattering nabobs on on list. You and your team and built a great product and deserve only appreciation from the community. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Fri, Jan 31, 2025, at 1:48 AM, David Cole wrote: > Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? > > I have gotten many approaches over the years, > But Izzi got my attention because... >- They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. >- They already know what z/XDC is. >- They believe in z/XDC! >- And they offer marketing, financial and support resources > which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), > but to grow both in marketing resources > and in broadening the platforms/environments > in which z/XDC can be used. > > Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. > We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources > that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as >- USS support, >- Browser and VS Code interfaces, >- COBOL source, > > Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. > Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. > Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! > > Dave Cole > > PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) > > > > > At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: > >I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people > >creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who > >should have stuck to the Air Force. > > > >I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. > > > >Doug Fuerst > > > > > >-- Original Message -- > > From "Phil Smith III" > >To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM > >Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft > > > >>https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition > >> > >>Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, > >>culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly > >>scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! > >> > >>-- > >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >-- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
With all due respect, you are the founder of Izzi Software. Hardly objective. I've been doing this for a long time as well, and have had to deal with stuff like this for most of those years (the years of CA and the Band of Five led by Charles Wang come to mind). z/XDC is it? I'm still not impressed. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "David Cole" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 2:48:04 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? I have gotten many approaches over the years, But Izzi got my attention because... - They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. - They already know what z/XDC is. - They believe in z/XDC! - And they offer marketing, financial and support resources which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), but to grow both in marketing resources and in broadening the platforms/environments in which z/XDC can be used. Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as - USS support, - Browser and VS Code interfaces, - COBOL source, Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! Dave Cole PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who should have stuck to the Air Force. I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Phil Smith III" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Dave is right. We need new players in the mainframe marketplace. More like, say, MacKinney Systems or, yes, Izzy, not like CA^H^HBroadcom or BMC. Will they make a go of it? Good question. Should they try? Absolutely! On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM Doug Fuerst wrote: > With all due respect, you are the founder of Izzi Software. Hardly > objective. > I've been doing this for a long time as well, and have had to deal with > stuff like this for most of those years (the years of CA and the Band of > Five led by Charles Wang come to mind). z/XDC is it? > I'm still not impressed. > > Doug Fuerst > > > -- Original Message -- > From "David Cole" > To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date 1/31/2025 2:48:04 AM > Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft > > >Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? > > > >I have gotten many approaches over the years, > >But Izzi got my attention because... > > - They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. > > - They already know what z/XDC is. > > - They believe in z/XDC! > > - And they offer marketing, financial and support resources > > which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), > > but to grow both in marketing resources > > and in broadening the platforms/environments > > in which z/XDC can be used. > > > >Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. > >We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources > >that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as > > - USS support, > > - Browser and VS Code interfaces, > > - COBOL source, > > > >Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. > >Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. > >Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! > > > >Dave Cole > > > >PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) > > > > > > > > > >At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: > >>I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people > creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who should > have stuck to the Air Force. > >> > >>I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. > >> > >>Doug Fuerst > >> > >> > >>-- Original Message -- > >>From "Phil Smith III" > >>To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >>Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM > >>Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft > >> > >>> > https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition > >>> > >>>Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, > culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly scream > "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! > >>> > >>>-- > >>>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > >>-- > >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >-- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
I won't dignify this insult with a response on this forum. I'll make my comment directly. I am done with this thread. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "David Cole" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 7:18:51 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft Doug. You are uninformed. In any case, whether or not I'm "objective" in your eyes has little bearing on whether or not I'm right or wrong. In particular, I can be involved and still be right. I can be "objective" and still be wrong. At 1/31/2025 06:54 AM, Doug Fuerst wrote: With all due respect, you are the founder of Izzi Software. Hardly objective. I've been doing this for a long time as well, and have had to deal with stuff like this for most of those years (the years of CA and the Band of Five led by Charles Wang come to mind). z/XDC is it? I'm still not impressed. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "David Cole" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 2:48:04 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? I have gotten many approaches over the years, But Izzi got my attention because... - They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. - They already know what z/XDC is. - They believe in z/XDC! - And they offer marketing, financial and support resources which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), but to grow both in marketing resources and in broadening the platforms/environments in which z/XDC can be used. Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as - USS support, - Browser and VS Code interfaces, - COBOL source, Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! Dave Cole PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who should have stuck to the Air Force. I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Phil Smith III" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Doug. You are uninformed. In any case, whether or not I'm "objective" in your eyes has little bearing on whether or not I'm right or wrong. In particular, I can be involved and still be right. I can be "objective" and still be wrong. At 1/31/2025 06:54 AM, Doug Fuerst wrote: With all due respect, you are the founder of Izzi Software. Hardly objective. I've been doing this for a long time as well, and have had to deal with stuff like this for most of those years (the years of CA and the Band of Five led by Charles Wang come to mind). z/XDC is it? I'm still not impressed. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "David Cole" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 2:48:04 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? I have gotten many approaches over the years, But Izzi got my attention because... - They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. - They already know what z/XDC is. - They believe in z/XDC! - And they offer marketing, financial and support resources which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), but to grow both in marketing resources and in broadening the platforms/environments in which z/XDC can be used. Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as - USS support, - Browser and VS Code interfaces, - COBOL source, Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! Dave Cole PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who should have stuck to the Air Force. I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Phil Smith III" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft
Yeah, that acquisition process worked out so well for the industry and CA. And BMC and Rocket hoovering up companies is contributing mightily to the excellent quality we see today. That seems to be be what Big Band's goal is. And Big Band is the backing for Izzi. Lots of great companies and products were ruined in those acquisition sprees. I remain unimpressed, and skeptical. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Jay Maynard" <05997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 7:03:14 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft Dave is right. We need new players in the mainframe marketplace. More like, say, MacKinney Systems or, yes, Izzy, not like CA^H^HBroadcom or BMC. Will they make a go of it? Good question. Should they try? Absolutely! On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM Doug Fuerst wrote: With all due respect, you are the founder of Izzi Software. Hardly objective. I've been doing this for a long time as well, and have had to deal with stuff like this for most of those years (the years of CA and the Band of Five led by Charles Wang come to mind). z/XDC is it? I'm still not impressed. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "David Cole" To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 1/31/2025 2:48:04 AM Subject Re: Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft >Yes. I have sold out! Do you want to know why? > >I have gotten many approaches over the years, >But Izzi got my attention because... > - They are mainframe centric [contrary to what DFuerst alleges]. > - They already know what z/XDC is. > - They believe in z/XDC! > - And they offer marketing, financial and support resources > which will allow z/XDC, not only to survive me (I am 78), > but to grow both in marketing resources > and in broadening the platforms/environments > in which z/XDC can be used. > >Both I and Mike and Frank and Peter will continue doing what we do best. >We also look forward to Izzi Software providing us with resources >that will make it possible to bring z/XDC into such new arenas as > - USS support, > - Browser and VS Code interfaces, > - COBOL source, > >Izzi is new, but their mainframe connections are not. >Their commitment to the mainframe ecosystem is real. >Our ISV world needs new players. Don't sell Izzi short! > >Dave Cole > >PS: That's Izzi with an I (not a y) > > > > >At 1/30/2025 11:15 PM, Doug Fuerst wrote: >>I read the Izzi and Big Band. They are nothing companies. The people creating them have no real MF background, including Ms. Nelson, who should have stuck to the Air Force. >> >>I can't wait to retire to get away from people like this. >> >>Doug Fuerst >> >> >>-- Original Message -- >>From "Phil Smith III" >>To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>Date 1/30/2025 12:40:55 PM >>Subject Izzy Software acquires ColeSoft >> >>> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129710495/en/Enterprise-Software-Veterans-Launch-Izzi-Software-Announce-ColeSoft-as-First-Mainframe-Industry-Acquisition >>> >>>Never head of Izzy before. Or BigBand. And "We harmonize capital, culture and teams to buy and grow SaaS companies" doesn't exactly scream "Go buy ColeSoft" to me?! >>> >>>-- >>>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >>-- >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >-- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Jay Maynard -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
