IBM Mainframe and AS400 IPDS filters for CUPS

[Michael Sweet]

Jens Stark wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>>
>> More than anyone has been willing to pay thus far, certainly more
>> than it would cost to buy the existing solutions on AS/400...
>>
>> Get with me off-line for a rough estimate.
>>
> 
> Let me guess - more than our set of Linux drivers, right ?

Yup, think at least 5-6 times as much.

> There's also the question of earning your money back -
> in a perfect world, CUPS could do IPDS.

Right, but first we'd need the customers.  Since we've had perhaps
half a dozen requests over the last 5 years for IPDS support, we
don't see ourselves earning back what we put into it...

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