Tony, It ain't cheap Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
