>The legacy, legacy, legacy everywhere on their site is pure indoctrination, >sorry, psychologically-inspired advertising, easily >impressed on the brain-pans of those with no genuine knowledge of Mainframes >who are already "modified" to believe that a >Mainframe is a dusty-old-thing running systems written in the 1960s.
There are many sites out there that have been deserted by IBM who only want to sell "Big Iron". There is nothing like the MP3000 for price/performance available today, yet many were sold. What options are there for users of small mainframes? I can't see IBM prices but the lowest price box appears to be around $75,000. When we bought our MP3000 (used) it was less than half that price, and that included the DASD. I recon that if you are adding DASD then you are looking at $100k -> $150K I am pretty sure there are still sites out there who are running legacy hardware with no where to go, who would like to stick with VM & DOS (perhaps even pre-Z versions). Any way if you want to and heckle I am sure you would be welcome at their forth coming "Mainframe Summit" https://www.lzlabs.com/software-defined-mainframe-summit/ but I guess like me, you can feel the marking oozing out... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
