“ This mindset has doomed z/OS” Lol, yeah doomed them. For decades. Nothing Google does requires 24 by 7 by 365 criticality. They aren’t bankers, healthcare providers, or online retailers. So they don’t need zOS and IBM couldn’t care less.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, October 25, 2025, 11:24 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: For me, the "How to obtain" link on that page ends up at the index page https://www.ibm.com/services, which seems to be IBM's way of handling 404's for the last few years. Side note: My guess is a manager said, "We have too many 404's", but instead of finding and fixing the problems, they just redirected them to various index pages. Mission accomplished, no more 404's. On 10/25/2025 7:48 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > Exactly. Use zPDT or Hercules with zVM 5.3 Evaluation Edition, > https://www.vm.ibm.com/eval/ > > copy applications to Linux on Z and recompile to prove they produce the > same results then stress test to show performance then try on used real > hardware (will it work with their existing storage?) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
