Go back and look at your pops manuals for the last 10 years or so. Note the
new instructions from one release to another. Those instructions were added
to facilitate functionality that was incorporated into one or more pieces of
software that IBM markets. If IBM is in control of the hardware that it's
software runs on, than it is in IBM's own interest to continue to enhance
the functionality of that hardware. If IBM's software executes on non-IBM
hardware, then it is subject to the limitations of that hardware. Someone
else is driving the train.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohammad Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is
falling!!)
Just like the availability of Linux free of charge on commodity hardware
has
killed Linux.
Just trying to understand your logic.
Mohammad
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:45:37 -0600, David Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
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