On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 08:49 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > zAAP and zIIP specialty engines [...] 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.)
Point taken, but a "slash" could be gradual (and more than the 10% MSU slide every three year hardware generation). It's easier, and cheaper by far, to reduce a price tag than to do the zXXP engineering. I have to conclude that IBM doesn't *want* more z/OS licenses. I don't understand that, but neither do I have access to the Big Picture. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
