https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/gjnv75/zpdt_and_ibm_isvs_question/
Basically, the $1000 personal mainframe was derailed by Covid and not restarted, not to mention they weren't prepared for the volume of requests they got before covid. On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM John Blythe Reid < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd heard that the price of running z/OS on a PC was going to come down for > personal users but looking at the IBM website it's still very expensive at > USD5,980.00 + tax per year. > > This is the URL of the page I'm looking at: > https://www.ibm.com/es-es/products/z-development-test-environment > > Am I looking in the right place ? > > Regards, > John > > -- > John Blythe Reid, > Técnico de Sistemas de z/OS y de Sistemas Transaccionales, > Barcelona, > España. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
