No one has mentioned the enhancement that most interests us:the EC12 can be installed in a data center *without raised floor*. Slab floors have become de rigour for new built-from-scratch data centers. The z114 can be mounted on slab but not the z196. This is the first Enterprise Class mainframe that can live happily in the brave new world.
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: August Carideo <august.cari...@avon.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/28/2012 10:41 AM Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> and it fits very few environments running now ( other then up-to-date Z/os shops ) and eliminated ESCON there would have to be major lic cost saving to even look into this, which I did not see mentioned From: shai hess <shai.h...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 08/28/2012 01:31 PM Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Why IBM manufacture new MF? Any new customers using MF or any increasing MF processing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
