I agree about the z needing to be cost effective. However, can you say "cash cow"? IBM, et al., are killing the goose that laid their golden egg. What is "amusing" to me is that the IBM PC is what took Intel, and others, from the home hobbist into the enterprise. And this is what is helping to destroy IBM's historic base. IMO, the IBM "X series" is just another Dell machine, or other "first tier" supplier.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Conway > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 9:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off? > > Ed Jaffe said: > IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine. > > I totally agree. There should also be an option to use NTP. > Not every > shop needs the granularity of STP, and they damn sure don't > want to pay > for functionality that comes free on every other piece of > hardware in the > house.. > > Right now, the choices are either to pay $BIGNUM for time > keeping software > unique to the hardware platform or to have no time keeping software. > > When I'm trying to advocate a zBox as cost effective, this > does not help. > > > Steven F. Conway, CISSP > LA Systems > z/OS Systems Support > Phone: 703.295.1926 > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
