Ted MacNEIL wrote:
z/VM isn't cheap.
It depends on your definition of cheap.
I was at the z9 109 RoadShow in Toronto this past Tuesday, and IBM told us that
z/VM cost $25,000; an IFL cost $125,000 and zLINUX was free.
-teD
In God we Trust!
All others bring data!
-- W. Edwards Deming
Linux may be "free", but try and get IBM to support their software on
the "free" Linux. IBM's software lists SUSE, United Linux, or RH as
requirments, all of these charge you per ILF for the right to run their
"free" software on your box. IIRC SUSE is $18K per processor.
IIRC the $25,000 for z/VM is per month. I'm fairly sure we are paying
$300,000 per year for it.
Yes it is much, much less expesnive than z/VM for non-Linux purposes or
z/OS.
The price of a ZAP is also $125,000. So, in theory, if you are already
running WAS on z/OS, running Java under CICS, or plan to run Java under
CICS, a ZAP makes more sense and is less expensive that setting up a
z/VM and zLinux farm. You get a processor for the Java stuff and you do
not increase your z/OS software costs.
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