Marvin Lukasik wrote:
Sorry to veer this discussion away from the frustrated English teachers who
would rather discuss pendatics rather than IBM-Main in this thread but ...
Edward E Jaffe wrote:
I haven't seen this announcement. But, even if they've stopped selling
zSeries processors. So what? System z is all the rage now!
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OK, I'll explain "so what". It's the politics of the situation that's important.
With all the anti-mainframe forces circling like vultures looking for the
slightest excuse to get rid of it, something like this could be the proverbial
straw that breaks the camel's back. Systems like this are sold as being good
for "x" years. This is done with a mid-life upgrade in mind to make it so.
If it doesn't last that long, management will ask "Why not?".
But, the announcement letter to which Tom referred (that I still haven't
seen -- does anyone have an announcement number? Or is this just rumor
and speculation?) supposedly indicates that zSeries processors are being
withdrawn from marketing, which says nothing about end of service.
System z9 processors scale lower/higher/better and are most cost
effective than zSeries anyway. So, I don't understand the problem.
It would be like me trying to buy last year's DELL PC and finding out
only this year's model is available for sale. That says nothing about
how long last year's model is supposed to last (MTBF and all that). It
merely says the older ones are no longer for sale as they have been
replaced by newer, better machines. It happens every day. There's
nothing political about it ...
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