Re: APL - Alive and Well!

On May 12, 1:15 pm, "David Liebtag" <DavidLieb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> Morten, you wrote:
> > 1. Some APL vendors never successfully made the transition from the
> > mainframe to the PC.
>
> I can't resist paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Re****ts of the death of the
> mainframe have been greatly exaggerated."
>
> :-)
>
> David Liebtag

How feasible would it be for an entrepreneur to rent a virtual
mainframe (with APL2 and perhaps DB2 installed) on one of your big
boxes that uses few resourses at modest cost in the beginning, but
could  scale seamlessly to large volume should business demand it?
With the right cost structure, this might be attractive to both IBM
and new startups.

# Steve