>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:14 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > People here won't give me a cost number for the software "because we have= > an enterprise license".
Then ask them for the cost of the enterprise license. Theoretically you wouldn't be able to eliminate that cost unless you completely eliminate all uses of the software. But, if the level of use gets low enough, you can stop paying for an enterprise license and only buy licenses for what is being used. > The biggest problem I have run into is that most z/OS program products do= > n't have equivalents in > z/Linux. (The exceptions are in the Tivoli and WAS spaces.) Most applicat= > ions we have depend on > these program products. Well, of course not. That's why moving workload from z/OS to Linux would be considered a porting effort, not just a workload move. Mark Post
