On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sunday, 03/22/2009 at 11:02 EDT, Andrew Wiley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > However, the machine I'm investigating is being offered by a local > > business that's decommissioning it, and I can ask if they plan to > > include VM. > > There are rules governing the transfer of software to someone else and it > depends on what verison z/VM they want to transfer and whether they > continue to run z/VM. If they transfer their z/VM license to you, then > they can't claim to posess a licence in order to get a free upgrade. If > they upgrade first, then they can't give the old software to you. > > If they had a license for 5 CPUs and wish to reduce their license count to > 3 on their new machine, that would leave 2 CPU's worth that they can > transfer to you (because IBM doesn't refund license fees). > > If you don't already have a mainframe and all of the attendent gear, I'm > not certain this is the right solution for you and your students. If you > want to teach them mainframe Linux, use Hercules and install Linux on it. Oh, we're nowhere near an actual decision, we're just finding out if this is feasible to begin with right now. The general courses are all in Java, so the platform really doesn't matter, we just need something that can run code; it may be better for us to just stick to our recycled desktops for simplicity's sake. There are independent study projects that do other languages (mostly C and C++) and/or computer science related projects, and a few of them would probably want to learn how to manage a mainframe if we wound up using one, but that's not really the goal here. This is just an offer we're considering. Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
