Rob, I am the author of the article in the latest z/Journal. Our company actually did utilize the SELP from IBM for three months and we did decide to keep the zIIP engine afterwards (we are leasing it).
This has to be a no-brainer from IBM's point of view. All they do is enable a processor which is currently unused on your z9 or z10 processor chip (which costs them nothing), and if you don't like, nothing ventured, nothing gained. If you like it (as we did), they make a sale, and they have essentially made money out of thin air. There is no question that this is a great business plan for IBM. Of course, we are very happy with the zIIP engine ourselves also, since it removes a lot of processing from our CP processors. Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation We had a company in Milwaukee that got to use 7 IFL engines for free for about a year for a test project running a couple hundred Linux servers. If you are big enough, and are likely to buy the engines, IBM can be very flexible. In this case, the company didn't buy the IFL engines. Eric ---- Rob Wunderlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read somewhere yesterday (latest z/Journal?) that IBM has a speciality > engine loaner program that lets you eval the engine for up to 90 days. If > that's appealing to you, check with your IBM rep for the terms. > > -Rob -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
