Novell and Red Hat are very aggressively competing for System z installations. Red Hat just announced an extension of their z10 BC pricing promotion through the end of 2009:
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/mainframe/promo/ Meanwhile, Novell recently had a general price reduction and has their own z10 BC promotion: http://www.novell.com/mainframe/z10promo Novell currently leads the System z Linux market. In a recent press article, Novell claimed to have an 85% marketshare in the Linux on System z market and is trying to grow that share. Red Hat is increasingly focusing on the mainframe market to try to win additional marketshare. Both companies are trying to expand the overall market. In related news, IBM is currently offering a 25% off general price promotion for many Lotus Notes user license products, including Lotus Notes for Linux on System z. That promotion expires August 5, 2009. Details are in announcement letter 309-533. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [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
