BMC reveals 'free money' mainframe and DB2 tools http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/bmc_ziiper_tools/
from above: IBM could just drop the price of mainframe hardware and software and compete. But that kind of thing would be too simple - and would not allow IBM to extract so much cash from the 10,000 remaining customers who cannot easily (or even hardly) move workloads off the mainframe. I mean, the money from all those share buybacks has to come from somewhere, after all. ... snip ... recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#81 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM referencing 2006 zjournal article: Financial Matters: Mainframe Processor Pricing History http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=article&aid=346 from above: is that the price per MIPS today is approximately six times higher than the $165 per MIPS that the traditional technology/price decline link would have produced ... snip ... -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
