On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:39:12 -0400, Scott Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't see how prices won't go up, unless IBM offers a package deal with >z/VM - z/OS and Linux...With the current state of the economy most shops are >looking for a cheaper alternative ...to spending a lot for software and >people of course... With subcap pricing on z/OS, you can add CPs for use by a z/VM LPAR. If you dedicate those CPs to the z/VM LPAR, your existing z/OS partition won't see an increase in MSU capacity. When you bring up z/OS as a guest on the z/VM LPAR, it will report MSU usage consistent with the share of the CPU it gets from z/VM (SET SHARE). So to the extent you use (and benefit from) z/OS running as a guest (with virtual CFs!), yes, it will cost extra. On the other hand you may find that your dev/test environments are cheaper to deploy in virtual machines than in LPARs. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
