On 11/9/2012 5:46 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Customers rebelled against the constant need to update the OS we've had to dance to over the last few years, and IBM changed its tune.
To the best of my knowledge, there was no customer rebellion. Rather, customers were taken completely by surprise by IBM's sudden z/OS release schedule change. There never was a constant need to upgrade the OS; upgrading every year was optional. Now that choice has been stripped away in an effort to reduce costs.
Maybe the same will come to pass on the hardware side as well.
I don't follow processor hardware life cycle details quite as closely as z/OS, but it seems to me that memory upgrades were withdrawn much earlier for z10 than for previous models. That is perception only; I have not verified as fact.
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