April 6, 2010 Roger Bowler Responds to IBM Patent Attack on Open Source
By Roger Bowler, Creator of Hercules and Co-founder of TurboHercules
(Posted in News & Blogs section of turbohercules.com on 6 April, 2010)
As many of you know, the company I founded to promote the Hercules open source mainframe emulator, TurboHercules SAS, has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission in Brussels. We are not asking that IBM be subjected to punishing fines or anything like that. We simply want IBM to agree to allow legitimate paying customers of its z/OS mainframe operating system to deploy that software on the hardware platforms of their choice – including, should they so choose, on low-cost servers using Intel or AMD microprocessors and Hercules.
I want to make clear that we undertook this action reluctantly, and only after a long period of reflection during which we reached out to IBM to see if there was some way to resolve our differences amicably. I regret to report that IBM rebuffed our efforts at conciliation, and even added fuel to the fire by launching accusations against Hercules. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to some of those charges.
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z390.org implemented NEW System/Z z196 on x86 & x64 in JAVA on win & Linux or any other J2SE platform in Dec of 2010
When I implemented NEW System/Z z196 on x86 & x64 in z390 HLASM & zCOBOL w/DB2 Express-C in Early 2010
My CLOUD was deployed/tested z390 HLASM & zCOBOL NEW System/Z z196 on x86 on CloudShare Pro in Dec 2010/Jan 2011
Sort of THROWS all this OUT the DOOR does it not...
Next thing people will say they did IT
roger it was a valent effort;
but we need to move forward with post haste;
so will say they DID it; we know best; all the late night's