MXI acquired by Rocket Software

As some of you may be aware, I have been exploring the options for the ongoing development of MXI for some time now. As the product has grown and gained more and more users, I have in turn become more concerned about my ability to continue to support and develop it at an acceptable level. With a full-time job and two young children, my spare time is limited, and I found that maintaining MXI was consuming more and more of it.

Rocket to the Rescue!

For this reason, when I was approached by Rocket Software with an opportunity that not only ensured the continuing development of MXI but allowed me to remain closely involved, I jumped at the chance.

For those who don't know the company, Rocket Software is a product development company with extensive MVS, OS/390, and z/OS expertise. Rocket develops numerous products, many of which are made available to mainframe customers under the IBM DB2 and IBM Tivoli brand names. Their intention is to develop MXI as a commercial product with the full weight of their resources behind it, i.e. 24hr support, manuals, access to OCO interfaces, testing and QA, rapid turn around of enhancement requests and early support for new versions of z/OS.

Naturally, they have no intention of stranding any existing users unable to upgrade to a commercial version of MXI, and are committed to maintaining a freeware version of the product indefinitely.

Until the commercial product has been released, I'm happy to continue to support existing users of MXI on an informal basis - however, it's likely that in the future you will need to upgrade in order to receive support.

Personal Touch

The best part for me is that I get to join Rocket Software as a developer, with specific responsibility for the development of MXI - my dream job! And now that I'm getting paid for it, I can put some serious effort into making all the additions and enhancements I have ideas for. 

I firmly believe in Rocket's commitment to provide reasonably priced, easy-to-use, quality software and am certain that MXI users can only benefit from their involvement.