On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:43:48 -0500, McKown, John wrote:

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>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould
>> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:27 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: z/OS 1.6 and more than 16 processors
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>> Paul,
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>> Just curious... do the vendors who charge fees by capacity take the
>> zAAP processor into consideration?
>>
>> Ed
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>IANP (I Am Not Paul),
>
>Supposedly not. However, I can imagine some vendor of Java-based
>middleware doing so in the future. And likely charging the zAAP site for
>the total number of CPUs and zAAPs. Hum, I wonder if Oracle will do
>this. Some of their stuff is Java based, isn't it?

I'm waiting for the first license agreement that simply demands a seat on
the company's board of directors and stock options for the vendor.  We
can't be all that far away from that, can we?

--
Tom Schmidt
Madison, WI

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