For now, IBM has legacy customers over a barrel and can demand a high price for the mainframe hardware and operating systems. But for developers of new apps, they can choose a different platform, esp. if they believe that their customers will purchase whatever platform it takes to run them. I think eventually (i.e., over decades) legacy applications will be replaced with newer slicker apps that don't require IBM's big iron. Hmm, in the decades to come, will IBM be able to continue to command a high price for its big iron? Will employees who work with big iron continue to be well paid?
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points > > Tony, > > Whoever said IBM was price competitive, they are re only game in town , > as far as big iron goes > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and > I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 30 January 2013 13:34, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 1/30/2013 10:30 AM, John McKown wrote: > >>> > >>>> From what I remember, zPDT can only be used for "software > development" > >>> activities. Yes, you can run CICS and DB2 on it. But not > "production > >>> work". I.e. you can't have your company's general end-users logging > >>> onto CICS and doing production work which "runs the business". I > guess > >>> they could do QA testing. > >> > >> > >> zPDT is for software developers only. RD&T (based on exactly the > same > >> technology) is for customers. > >> > >> http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/devtest/systemz/ > > > > Sure, but for customers to do development and testing only. > Absolutely > > no production, or even production-like builds. Still no low-end zArch > > machines for a small company to run prod on. > > > > Tony H. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM- > MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
