ooRexx vs Object Rexx

I assume that ooRexx (from The Rexx Language Association):

http://www.oorexx.org/

is not the same as Object Rexx (from IBM):

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdto...ows/index.html

Right?

Is Object Rexx available as a separate product from IBM?

The website above is cryptic about it's availability and says there
are no trial versions for download.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:00:28 -0700, Three Lefts
<spamtrap@spamtrap.invalid> declaimed the following in comp.lang.rexx:

> I assume that ooRexx (from The Rexx Language Association):
>
> http://www.oorexx.org/
>
> is not the same as Object Rexx (from IBM):
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdto...ows/index.html
>
> Right?
>
As I recall, the core Object REXX language was turned over to RLA to
become Open Object REXX... However, some IBM proprietary extensions
(IDE, GUI interface, etc.) were not included in the transfer.
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Three Lefts wrote:
> I assume that ooRexx (from The Rexx Language Association)
> is not the same as Object Rexx (from IBM)
> Is Object Rexx available as a separate product from IBM?

They were roughly the same when IBM gave away the source. ooRexx didn't
include IBM's "Workbench" nor the RxFTP() package. This was ~8 years ago
(wild guess, feels like that to me).

Then Object REXX development stopped, and ooREXX took off, so they have
now diverged.

If you are fluent in Object Rexx then ooRexx can do it all, any
differences being quite minor (I don't recall any).

I once tried to get permission to ship the last release of Object Rexx
to someone who needed it, on the basis that it was no longer an IBM
product, so there was no reason not to. But I didn't manage to find
anyone in a position to grant such authority (probably because there in
no longer anyone within IBM whose responsibility is Object Rexx).

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On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:52:41 +0100, Steve Swift
<Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote:

>Three Lefts wrote:
>> I assume that ooRexx (from The Rexx Language Association)
>> is not the same as Object Rexx (from IBM)
>> Is Object Rexx available as a separate product from IBM?
>
>They were roughly the same when IBM gave away the source. ooRexx didn't
>include IBM's "Workbench" nor the RxFTP() package. This was ~8 years ago
>(wild guess, feels like that to me).
>
>Then Object REXX development stopped, and ooREXX took off, so they have
>now diverged.
>
>If you are fluent in Object Rexx then ooRexx can do it all, any
>differences being quite minor (I don't recall any).
>
>I once tried to get permission to ship the last release of Object Rexx
>to someone who needed it, on the basis that it was no longer an IBM
>product, so there was no reason not to. But I didn't manage to find
>anyone in a position to grant such authority (probably because there in
>no longer anyone within IBM whose responsibility is Object Rexx).

OK, thanks.