ons 2021-03-17 klockan 10:13 +0000 skrev Seymour J Metz: > Yes, z/OS on z is attractive for a medium or large customer, but it > is priced out of the market for a hobbyist or a "Mom and Pop" > business. The entry cost is much lower for, e.g., openSUSE on a PC. I > miss the days of 80% discounts for Academia. > > Of course, if you need high I/O bandwidth or RAS, ...
I don't know if i want to agree with you ... A medium business in the nordic countries don't uses mainframes. It could be that it is more System i (depending on what application package ie movex they have choosen) or something running on Windows server or some version of Solaris or HP-UX. Telia earlier were a heavy user of VMS and OSF. So were Vattenfall - all of them is now i believe on Windows or something. One reason is the dearth of knowledgeable people who wants to bet their careers on the mainframe (and COBOL and RPG.) The banks run their central system on z/OS, though. But where is the expansion ? I dont know what workloads Volvo now runs on their mainframe, or what Evry has on their machines for their customers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
