On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:05:53 -0600, Eric Bielefeld <eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But, I suspect that many of the customers had larger mainframes, and are >just in a holding pattern trying to get off of z/OS. The way IBM is >treating their small customers, I'm sure that will increase the speed of >their getting off of z/OS. Then, they will forever be lost to the >mainframe. Of the 5 commercial FLEX-ES users I contacted in Canada: - 1 said they are doing OK; bought a second FLEX system for D.R. - 1 said they had 3, but none are in production as they've already migrated to Linux (presumably not Linux for z). - 1 is looking at z9BC; "Unfortunately, we're learning that good options (with similar TCO's to the Flex-ES) don't exist." - 1 is migrating to web-based apps (presumably not z) over 2-3 years; running unsupported VM, VSE - 1 no response, or I can't find it. >I also remember being at an IBM marketing meeting in Milwaukee, where the >issue of smaller mainframes running on PCs was brought up. I think this was >between 1 and 2 years ago. The IBM spokesman said "Watch this space" for >furthur developements. Well, there doesn't seem to be any furthur >developements. All I see is IBM trying to get rid of any competition. At that time, I think there were high hopes for what turned out to be zPDT. Those hopes were dashed (except maybe for some IBMers). Regards, Mike Baldwin Cartagena Software Ltd. www.cartagena.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
