> > $13K is a problem to most consulting companies ?? Surely not - maybe most of > > the one-person consulting companies, but for anything of eg. 10 people and up, > > would $13K really represent a problem ? > > Is that per consultant?
I played with z/Flex - the zArchitecture version of Flex-ES - on an 850MHz ThinkPad. We got three z/OS TSO sessions going in ARCHLVL=2 with negligible trivial TSO response time - a logon by any one session caused about a three-second performance hit. For general development, I suspect four to six users on a 1.4GHz xSeries would be very practical. Oh - when we did this, we were sitting at the cocktail bar in a Virgin Atlantic Jumbo at 34,000 feet. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
