Post, Mark K wrote:
Novell and Red Hat did that at the encouragement of IBM, i.e., they're
no longer paying them to produce a 31-bit platform for the mainframe.
Hence, lower costs.
The IBM developers at some point will stop testing changes on 31-bit
systems. No QA, lower costs, etc., etc.
Mark Post
Keep this in perspective please Mark. There are still _years_ of support
for s390 from both the vendors and IBM.
Existing customers have time to plan an upgrade to zSeries.
Yes, ultimately 31bit will fade away, but older used zSeries machines
will come onto the market too ;-)
In years memory will become cheaper, so why stay with 31bit anyway?
Mark
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