Mike Myers wrote: > That's interesting to me that you would suggest IBM will give z/VM for > free to hospitals. I am presently consulting at a hospital that is > moving away from z/OS and moving their primary applications to the > mid-range. > > I would like to get the to look at using the mainframe for Linux, > under z/VM.
Keep in mind that this is only for RESEARCH use. Using the system to run the hospital is NOT considered supporting research at the hospital. That was the problem we had. We used VM + MVS to run our financials, human resources, and student information systems. Those activities are not qualified as "support of research" at our University (according to IBM, those are administrative functions). Thus we paid regular price (less 15% academic institution discount). Which made it way too expensive for us. And paved the way for our migration to Solaris (which was FREE whether we used it for academic OR research OR administrative purposes). --Stephen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
