There are no costs that *have* to be incurred. However, all the zLinux companies will try their best to get you to buy their Patch/Fix support. For SuSE that has been less than $5K/year, but I understand the price has not 'gone up' a bit. Don't have the details at this time, but I expect they will make something fairly reasonable available.
Once you have a copy up and running it is pretty rare to need to change it, especially in a production environment. And the system is solid as a rock, especially under z/VM. One note - don't expect good support on zLinux from anyone- including IBM. All of the support people are basically Intel people, and don't have much of a clue of the difference between DASD and a harddisk - and no idea about how things like FICON work. SuSE has some really good people in place who can help out, but getting to them can be a "challenge." On the flip side - it is cheap and works really well. -Paul
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