Python and Industry, IBM I'm afraid

[Brad Clements]

6 months ago I rattled several doors at IBM to see if they'd sponsor a port
of Python to AS/400 (that is, spare me a few bucks and a machine to do the
port).

I never was able to make the necessary connections and gave up.

Meanwhile, I did finish the port of Python 1.5.2 and Zope to NetWare, but
Novell isn't interested in sponsoring that either so I'm stuck trying to
figure out how to recoup the cost. Don't get mad at me, but I'm a poor
programmer with a family to feed and just can't spare much time on non
billable stuff even though I absolutely love Python :-(



--
Brad Clements,
bkc at murkworks.com
"Pete" <p at mjs400.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3A642C9F.58E02F23 at mjs400.co.uk...

> Honestly Simon! I do have an old, working version of JPython on my
> account on virtual400.com :) THAT was easy.
> More importantly though, if I can put to one side the 11 years spent
> coding for Business (the horror...the horror...), and get further into
> debt, and stay fatherly, and get hold of a C compiler, perhaps it will
> be a good challenge to make the first EBCDICy Python Port, but I think
> brighter, fitter, younger guys can do it before the end of the century.
>
> Given Industry/IBM is a fact that hasn't changed, and won't change in a
> hurry: what's next?
>
> --Pete