Customers asked IBM for more capacity increments, which is why the System z9 BC has so many. Just that simple.
As mentioned upthread, many customers wanted additional hardware granularity, especially on the System z9 EC. Also, while it would be nice if all software were available on a subcapacity basis (e.g. IBM's WLC), some customers have old contracts and/or vendors that don't yet provide subcapacity pricing. Fortunately more and more vendors seem to be adopting subcapacity pricing in one form or another. I have worked with at least one customer that now has all their software priced at subcapacity. Indeed they are less concerned about these fine capacity increments, and they run some of their Linux work on spare CP capacity. They may have other reasons to get System z9 (e.g. zIIP), but granularity is not much of a factor for them. Your mileage may vary. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. 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
