I have to respond to one point Roger Bowler made (again). Roger, it's impossible to configure a z114 at capacity setting A00 without either one IFL or one ICF -- and you probably know better. IBM's starting mainframe configuration is either a single IFL model or a capacity setting A01 model. Yes, it's one of those two (not the ICF-only model). No, IBM didn't say which of those two configurations starts at under $75,000 (U.S. pricing), but I assure you it's one of those two. (Hint: Joe Clabby narrows it down.) Just as IBM also didn't say which z890 configuration started at under $100,000 when that model was announced, but there were only the same two starting configurations then, too.
Your repeating your false assertion (a $75K mainframe without customer-usable CPU capacity) in multiple forums doesn't make your assertion any more correct. (LinkedIn, too? Seriously?) Your assertion is just flat out false and disparaging. As I mentioned elsewhere, the only people upset that IBM has reduced starting prices for its z114 mainframes by 25% (fact!) are IBM's competitors. Everyone else is thrilled. And the only person who doubts this earth is round is you. If you've got hard evidence that IBM doesn't know its own pricing, put up. If you don't, it's long past time you ceased. (Sorry for that digression, folks.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
