On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:05:37 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm more interested in the new instructions, and any enhancements to the >architecture itself (if any). The only way that we will get one is if it >is cheaper (in hard dollars) than our current z9BC. >
Assuming things stay the same as they have in "z"-past, the "big z" model will be this year and the "baby z" model will be next year. But perhaps part of the grand plan is to only have one very scalable model moving forward. Guess those of us not under NDA will find out soon... Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
