I agree that the technology is certainly getting better at allowing this
sort of thing, but:
a) can be difficult at some customer shops due to internal security
concerns. Some may not even let you connect to their network without a
virus scan, let alone get out to the internet.
b) IMHO these are still prohibitively expensive, not the cards
themselves, but the service.
YMMV and of course your opinions may vary...
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
So it looks like a new z9 BC has a much lower price net, and it's
certainly
a fantastically better machine.
And how do you reacon you put that in your attachi case when setting
out to a customer location for doing a demo???
With great difficulty. :-)
Any serious ISV with z9 will connect it to the Internet and set up a VPN
for remote access. Someone with a laptop at a remote location, such as a
customer site, will use either a) the customer's LAN/WAN or b) a
CDMA/EVDO PC card to establish connectivity to the Internet and -- via
VPN tunnel -- to systems back at the "ranch". [I was hanging out with a
friend -- who also happens to be a customer -- after SHARE in Baltimore.
As the day came to a close sitting in his car in a parking lot, I fired
up a TN3270 connection back to our systems and spent a few minutes
demonstrating some "cool" new upcoming functionality. Besides being lots
of fun, it was a good use/example of what's possible with fairly
inexpensive modern technology.]
You certainly do not need to carry a machine running z/OS around with you.
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