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Subject: Re: IBM proposes EGL go open source
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:21:33 -0400
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But the mainframers are already buying EGL - for a hefty price if I recall correctly - so IBM are not going to give that capability away if for no other reason than it would annoy the hell out of those who have paid big $ for it.

COBOL shops on the IBM i of course is another matter!

Jon Paris

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On Jul 2, 2010, at 1:00 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Personally, I think that is the wrong way around. Those hard to convince is
the Cobol folks, not the Java folks.

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