Which costs less? On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:40:01 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>On 8/13/2012 10:01 PM, Jake anderson wrote: >> Does IBM provides support running Z/OS on X86 ? > >Yes, with its RD&T offering: >http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/devtest/systemz/ > What's IBM's economic rationale here? If it's cheaper for them to make z/OS available on X86, then much that I read in this forum about the economic advantages of zSeries is untrue, and IBM's motive for not licensing z/OS for X86 is simply to compel customers to buy the more expensive hardware from IBM. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
