You make a good point quoted below, however I know in the past IBM has givin companies IFLs for free for a period of time. A company in Milwaukee got several IFL engines (7 if I remember) for a period of around a year or so maybe 2 years ago. They got everything working, but politics prevented implementing Linux in production. I think they converted over 100 servers.
Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer 414-475-7434 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---- "Gibney wrote: > It's still a hard sell at 100K per IFL plus 40K z/VM and no real > promises that the workload matches until you try it. You can buy fail a > lot of squatty boxes with that kind of money and you don't need it all > in one chunk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
