On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:33:19 -0500, Errol Van staden wrote: >has anyone noticed a trend in IBMs strategy in shifting the focus of the >mainframe to very large users such as outsourcers etc? I am talking about >features such as IRD, group capacity limits, and sysplex aggregation pricing >benefits. Could they be bolstering though outsourcing wing for the future? I believe it is the simple result of IBM being a market driven corporation. The very large users might spend the most money, taken individually. (Then again, they might be frugal if taken in appropriately sized strata...) It isn't as if IBM is ignoring the other customers. There are plenty of things in z/OS 1.8 and 1.9 for all customers. The z/9-BC is certainly applicable to small- to-medium sized companies (and the largest, too). CICS/TS 3.2 certainly has interesting & worthwhile things in it for a local insurnace company (or two). We would all like IBM to be all things to all customers... but what are the odds of that working out equally well for all? -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI (Some people would complain even if you planned on hanging them with a silk rope.)
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