My reason for saying what I did is that outsourcers can offer major price benefits to a company (ABC) running it's own system by bringing ABC on board it's huge Processing complex and then (if needed) aggragating the sysplex MSUs together and thus reducing the licence fees of ABC (as well as its existing base). Then IBM has made it easier to manage the resources used by the small companies running on LPARS by introducing group capacity limits. I am not saying that IBM are doing nothing for the smaller user, but they are making it easier for them to justify outsourcing.
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