On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: >> >>I don't have any kind of problem with mainframes or the way they are. I >>accept the fact they are different from what I am used to, and at the same >>time I am interested. It's just I don't want to put all my time in them. >>With some amount of work, mainframe could become as flexible and cheap as >>PC, but I don't think this would happen soon. Ok, not as cheap as PC but >>not as pricey as now either. >> > That idea founders on the economics of support. The miracle that > the providers of Linux, OS X, and Windows have achieved is to > construct a system where the costs of configuration and support > per customer are orders magnitude less than those of z/OS. I > suspect a single service call to IBM costs, in the aggregate, more > than an entire desktop system.
Have you priced a support call with Microsoft lately? One that lets you talk to someone who actually has access to and understands the code? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
