It may be that there is more revenue to be made from that platform. Selling subscription/support on a per IFL basis is not as lucrative as targeting the mass xSeries market.
One can assume that they are in business to make money. The non-zSeries markets are the easiest way to achieve this. [email protected] Sent by: [email protected] 08/25/2010 10:26 AM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Virtualization with the Best TCO? Isn't the real problem that the VMWare vendor(s) does a LOT of advertising and marketing, and the z/VM vendor does not (other than preaching to the choir)? Graves, Aaron wrote: > The implication is that these represent the leading edge of virtualization, completely ignoring z/VM's capabilities. This happens time after time, conference after conference and webcast after webcast. It's almost like z/VM with zLinux exists in some parallel universe that is outside the perception of the distributed world. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Virtualization with the Best TCO? > > On Tuesday, 08/24/2010 at 03:16 EDT, "Graves, Aaron" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> How about a z/VM zLinux response to this? >> >> > http://www.computerworld.com/pdfs/RedHat_Enterprise_Linux_has_Best_TCO.pdf > > Not sure what you're looking for, Aaron, as Red Hat says nothing about > System z, limiting the comparison of their KVM-based system to VMware > vSphere and Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
