Shane sez > Mate, I have (what was) a multi-site customer that is migrating > off-platform for reasons of less than half an engine. > They wouldn't pay for an ICF, and wanted the M-thingies back from the CF > LPARs.
M-thingies? You mean those meaningless indications of speed-thingies? > Eventually the second site was shut down; WLC and (severe) > capping pulled the costs down on the remaining site. > Not enough - on the way to being lost altogether. No big surprise, but I hear that a lot. If it is as widespread as it seems, then the z platform seems doomed to be marginalized into a smaller and smaller number of ever-larger footprints. Not a healthy picture!!! > The Geico's of the world may not feel the pain, but the smaller end of > town is. You needn't worry about that, the Geico's of the world do plenty of yelping. But at least they have deep enough pockets to get good value out of what they do spend on z. And of course, they have Sam :-) CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
