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  3. July 2002

Re: Thank for your correspondence - The letter I got from the folks at FAST400

Leif,

>maybe we have here an example of competition that worked and
>forced the main vendor to improve their product...

IBM never improved SSP to rewrite how indexed files are processed, at least to
my knowledge.  The last I worked on a real S/36 was in 1990.

But what you do have is an example of a product which openly replaced critical
portions of the OS and changed the layout of structures used by the OS.

Yet IBM legal did not force them to withdraw the product even though I presume
it violated terms of the license agreement for SSP (the OS on the box).  I doubt
that creates a precedent which can help FAST/400 in court, but you never know...

Doug

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