Marian Gasparovic wrote:
Of course I meant support for Linux, not for IBM sw.
On 9/25/05, Marian Gasparovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Linux may be "free", but try and get IBM to support their software on
the "free" Linux. IBM's software lists SUSE, United Linux, or RH as
requirments, all of these charge you per ILF for the right to run their
"free" software on your box. IIRC SUSE is $18K per processor.
It is SUSE and RH who charge those money. You can get their enterprise
Linux only with support (one year minimum). And you can choose who will be
primary support contact if it is IBM or SUSE/RH. And it is not IBM policy in
this case to charge for # of processors you have.
Marian
Yes, I know, but my point was that Linux was not free if you want to run
IBM products on it and get support for the IBM products.
You can download the required kernel mods and compile your own kernel.
Select what packages you want to install and modify as needed to run on
a zSeries box. However, all of the IBM products I have seen that are
supported running on zLinux list specific distributions that are not
free if you want support for the distribution.
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