While I agree with what you are saying and being a very early WAS customer there were also sometimes severe implications to performance *trying* to get WAS to play nice with the traditional workloads. Something had to be done to allow the 2, trad. workloads & WebFear, to cohabitate...
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: From: McKown, John <[email protected]> Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:19 PM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator > > Mark Zelden pisze: > [...] > > I don't have a stake either way, but if I were rooting for > Neon and they > > won this battle, IBM would still be free to change the > licensing rules or > > not charge less for special engines, or they could just > change the code > > and break zPrime for Neon. So the only benefit seems to > be temporary for > > anyone using the software. Long term, it could hurt everyone else. > > Another scenario: Neon wins, IBM tries to break zPrime and is > sued for > trust practices. Then LOSES anti-trust trial and is obliged to keep > zPrime working. Effect: everyone can lower his HW and SW bills. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland More likely effect: IBM discontinues the speciality engines entirely. And OEM vendors start basing their software prices on both CP and speciality engines in the box instead of just on the CPs. IMO, the entire point of the zAAP at least was to not impact software costs for traditional workloads while making "new" workloads (WAS) affordable. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
