Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Even under that program there are restrictions in the Terms and 
Conditions that would have prohibited us from building the offering that 
we did.  The Ts&Cs are not nearly as straight forward as you are 
intimating.  That program assumes you are going to produce a product 
that will help sell IBM i, a reasonable thing from IBM since they are 
giving you a significant discount.  There are other parts of the Ts&Cs 
that come into play with that program that would put restrictions on 
what could be done with it.  With all things the devil is in the details.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 11/12/2010 5:29 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> I never understood why Larry and Jim expressed concern over IBM licensing.  I
> really don't see that as a problem, particularly for developers, who can get a
> 50% discount on HW&  SW. It's not like IBM forces anyone to license under their
> academic initiative.