That all becomes very interesting when you put numbers to it. You know $30,000 is about what you pay for a Flex/ES machine with the emulation software.
I can see one distinct advantage to Flex, which is hardware peripheral emulation, like fake-tape and DASD. It seems that you get killed on the software costs, but they're not as much for a small machine as I imagined. As an IBM development partner could you get an even bigger break on the software costs? Why not the entire range of z/OS software like with the ADCD collection? If IBM would give you this to do development for little or no cost then there would be little need for an emulation machine. To run a business, the prices you mentioned were quite reasonable. Thanks for helping put things into perspective. Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: P390 I posted an item at The Mainframe Blog (http://mainframe.typepad.com) today with a discussion of what's currently involved in obtaining a "home mainframe" (which might be personal or might be shared among a group of developers). The post might spur some interesting comments, and anyone is welcome to comment. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
