On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:27:29 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: > >It has to do with how the other guy prices his software. For example, if >he is mips based on a specific box, and you then start running his >software on a much faster zIIP, he would be loosing revenue and the >customer could be in violation of the use agreement. > I see. But if the "other guy" charges a flat rate or even supplies FOSS and doesn't care, this creates a side door to the zIIP and I'd expect IBM to care, as IBM surely cared about Neon zPrime.
>> On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:53:13 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >> >>> Once properly licensed, I believe that there is very little of your own >>> code that you are not allowed to make zIIP eligible. >>> >>> The main thing that you are not allowed to do is to make someone else's >>> code zIIP-eligible (which includes calling them from a zIIP-eligible >>> state), without their approval. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
