As you well know the Flex is a z/Architecture box. Many developers run z/VM V5
on it today. This you know also. IBM will not allow commercial users to license
z/VM V5 on a Flex machine. You probably know the reason but for some reason you
will not tell your customers the truth.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, 04/16/2006 at 04:46 EST, Stephen Frazier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our company is very willing to continue to pay version 3 price for
version 5. If
IBM were to offer version 5 at version 3 price to its current customers
now
running version 3 on flex almost all would take it.
Stephen, it wouldn't do any good for us to offer z/VM V5 to you for your
S/390 FLEX box - not at any price. As I said at WAVV (and here,
previously): z/VM V5 simply CANNOT run in S/390 mode. Really. It uses
instructions and facilities that are available ONLY in z/Architecture
(http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm520/architecture).
For what it's worth, it won't run on a 9672 or Multiprise 3000, either.
The fact that other
customers with large IBM machines are paying much less for version 5
would not
matter. When and if a company grows its flex box to where it approaches
the size
of a small IBM box, then having VM cheaper on the IBM box will make a
difference. It will encourage users of large flex boxes to go to an IBM
box.
z/VM V5 is already cheaper than V3 on the IBM box, so it doesn't make
sense to me that the decision to move from a large FLEX box to an IBM box
would revolve around the price of z/VM. The acquisition costs of a
z/Architecture box appears to be the primary issue.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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Stephen Frazier
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