Ted MacNEIL wrote:
But "The Company Line" is probably the last thing we
want to hear, whether it's right or wrong
I agree.
Especially when it doesn't match reality.
We are NOT paying less!
We are NOT exploiting JAVA/WebSphere on the mainframe.
We do NOT have any workloads that can exploit NAlc, as I understand the
announcements.
We are NOT going to z9 any day soon.
We are NOT the only customer in this situation!
Here, in Poland, majority of (small) datacenters run Adabas & Natural
application. Very old applications, stable - no enhancements are done.
They're trying to get rid of CICS in place of Com-plete, or AMshell
(polish software). Everything to be qualified for z/OS.e license.
What's always funny for me - on every IBM conference they hear about
newest "bells & whistles" like Linux on mainframe, zAAP, zIIP (did I
mention their applications are really OLD?), SOA, "on-demand". They hear
it and think how to get service for 3725 or 3274, or how fix HDS 7700C
aka Tetragon 2000.
Oh, I forgot, they *don't pay less*, unless they migrate to dot-e
system. Obviously IBM's addressed dot-e to new customers, but I know
only old ones which decided to use it.
My $0.02
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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