I believe zBX suffered from being too little, too late - if it had been released a decade earlier, it might have been a killer. It was also a fairly narrow solution in terms of what was available to run on it.
I also understand that it was dependent on specific hardware (blades), which IBM did not manufacture. I heard (unsubstantiated) that when those blades ended production, IBM they bought up a ton as spares; when zBX then failed to take off, they were stuck with the inventory, and thus had dug themselves a big hole from which the zBX could not escape. Perhaps one of the ex-IBMers who lurk here can confirm or deny-I'm sure no current IBMer would want to risk his/her job thusly! .phsiii (who is sad, because he loved the idea of the zBX!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
