On 13 Nov 2008 09:37:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Andrews) wrote: >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.
Wild conjecture can come up with some reasons - most of which don't bode well for our future. Does IBM want to sell xNix mainframes? Or are they orienting differently - to sell powerful database machines, powerful application servers, powerful web servers... ? Or would they be happy to be out of the computer hardware business altogether? When PCs became a commodity, they got out of that business. Do they foresee business computer hardware becoming a commodity? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
