On Monday, 04/17/2006 at 10:47 EST, Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Stephen, I don't know how to be more clear: the reason we do not license z/VM V5 to commercial FLEX-ES users is because we do not license it to *any* S/390 box, and commercial usage of FLEX-ES is limited to S/390. (That restriction is not new.) Yes, the FLEX box is capable of emulating z/Architecture, but that capability is available to PWD members only, to whom we *do* license z/VM V5.2. I know you don't like that restriction, but neither I nor my colleagues here in z/VM Land are responsible for that decision. And I honestly have not been told *why* the restriction is in place, so I can't reveal what I don't know (even if I were permitted to do so.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
