Ed - Thanks for posting that article. Very interesting. I wonder how this
will play out. Will IBM try to squash its use, as its own revenue will be
cut, or will they decide to promote it or sell it themselves to try and up
their marketshare, and hopefully their total sales of mainframes and
software products?
I've always thought that IBMs pricing is way too complicated, and tends to
go against their old customers with lots of CICS and Cobol programs. If you
qualify for new work, z/OS can cost way less, but I suspect few older
customers qualify. I know at my last job, that was a big concern. They had
about 90% of their workload as DB2, and the other 10% running several CICS
regions. They split the 2 workloads and ran a sysplex, so they could get
billed at one rate for the CICS stuff, and a much cheaper rate for the DB2
workload. Truly what we used to call a Shamplex. The worst thing is that
if we could have run everything in 1 Lpar, we would have saved 10-20% of the
machine cycles just for the overhead of running a sysplex. They make you
jump through hoops, but you can save real money by jumping through those
hoops!
Eric
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Gould" <[email protected]>
Original URL:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/08/neon_zprime_mainframe/Neon revs
cost-cutting mainframewarezPrime risks Big Blue ireBy Timothy Prickett
MorganPosted in Servers, 8th July 2009 22:25 GMTUnderstand how application
security is evolvingA small mainframe software tool developer called Neon
Enterprise Software has opened up a can of worms - and quite possibly
several cans of Big Blue whoop-ass - by launching a new tool that will allow
customers to shift a larger percentage of their workloads from standard (and
expensive) mainframe engines to the cheaper specialty System z mainframe
engines known as zIIPs and zAAPs. It's called zPrime.With around 10,000
footprints worldwide, maybe somewhere around $4bn in mainframe sales a year,
and heaven only knows how many billions per year in monthly rentals for
mainframe operating systems, databases, and middleware, IBM is very
protective of its mainframe franchise monopoly. (SNIP)
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