> I would think it's a question of demand. I think that if IBM sees a > significant increase in zLinux use, they might support it in the future.
Unlikely. It's the same physical iron, just different microcode, and if you can turn the iron into an IFL, that benefits everything accessing the processor, not just Java or DB/2 workload. It's also less things to support and test if they don't do it. > Obviously (to me at least), the pricing of the IFLs is commensurate with > the demand for them, so there might be a time where IFLs could be the > equivalents of regular CPs today, and then IBM might decide to support > ZAAPs and ZIIPs in zLinux. The only reason these specialty processors exist is to address predatory pricing practices for z/OS software. Linux mostly follows saner pricing methods, and VM is getting there, so there's no real value in making ZIIPs and ZAAPs work in Linux because the pricing models don't demand it. Then again, nobody ever lost money betting that companies will do stupid things. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
