On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: > My thinking is that because of the lack of availability of low cost > zSeries HW and z/OS very few independant developers will directly any > application/utility development towards z/OS.
I agree, it is hard for me to see how availability of entry level z/OS options would be bad for IBM. They might have problem with people running it on Hercules, okay. But I think it would be possible to put a mainframe online and give hobbysts a way to learn on it for free (with registration, maybe involving sending passwords via snail mail etc). IBM is not poor, I suppose, so even top notch machine would be a scratch in their budget. Showing hundreds of people doing something useful on a behemoth, this would be nice tour de force as well as free marketing. Perhaps they have plans for the future without z/OS? Otherwise, I cannot imagine they don't plan at all. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
