On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote:
> The absurdities of IBM's tactics to force hardware upgrades. > > Performance is relative. At my age, I don't perform as well as in my 20's. > > In my 20's mainframes didn't perform as well as a 9672 running Linux > with an emulated z10 and z/VM. > > I guess it just depends on what you want to do. > > Your doubts about IBM licensing are well founded. Something really > stinks there... > Why is that "absurd"? Why does it stink? Are you suggesting that IBM should stock parts for long-dead machines that no serious company would want to run any more? Why? What's in it for them?
