Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:28:59 -0500, P S wrote:
... specialty engines help keep the cost of
z/OS and friends high...
They do? Not that I can tell.
zAAP and zIIP specialty engines, which take over more and more work as
more and more products are enhanced to exploit them, and the technology
dividend, which makes the z10 27% less expensive from a software
licensing perspective than z900, are elements of an overarching strategy
to gradually *lower* the price of z/OS even as MIPS use is exploding.
If the price was slashed overnight, the market would crash and IBM would
lose too much money. (So would a lot of ISVs.)
--
Edward E Jaffe
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Los Angeles, CA 90045
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