On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:45:37 -0600, David Day wrote: > ... In my opinion, what will kill the mainframe is if the market becomes a commodities market where anyone can buy a $500 pc and get a license to run z/OS. Funny, that is pretty close to the market that pushed OS/2 out of the way and brought us Microsoft's Windows. ISTM IBM should learn from the OS/2 fiasco and do unto MS what MS did unto IBM (with Windows). Why shouldn't z/OS be able to compete with MS Vista? (How in the world IBM would run a support organization for z/OS on that scale would be a very interesting problem to solve. On the other hand, if the revenue stream matched up it would be a very profitable problem to need to solve. Not that we'll ever see those problems in our combined lifetimes...) I'll say one thing: if the license to run z/OS is priced too high the market will vote - strongly - in any other direction.
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