> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric N. Bielefeld > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:37 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: FW:A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community > > > This surely seems like a good way to start killing the > mainframe. Get rid > of the developers of software products for your system. > Also, get rid of > all of the really small companies off the mainframe that will > never now grow > into large customers. There doesn't seem to be a lot of > smarts in IBM in > some areas.
zSeries no longer seems to be considered a stragetic system as best as I can tell. It is expensive. And it is too reliable. What I mean is that people don't seem to care anymore if a server dies once a week, just reboot it and recover whatever was "in flight". Having hardware that won't fail in 5 years of continuous operation is "over engineered" because such reliability is no longer considered important to the business customers. > > I have a question. I know this has been discussed in the past, but I > haven't heard any updates lately. Does the FlexEs product > legally run z/OS > in 64 bit addressing mode yet? The last we discussed it on > IBM-Main, if I > remember correctly, you couldn't run 64 bit addressing mode, > meaning z/OS > 1.6 and above wouldn't run on it. To the best of my knowledge, no. You cannot run commercial 64 bit on FlexES. Likely ever. > > Why would IBM want to kill off their smallest customers? It > just doesn't > make sense. IBM is sure sending a lot of mixed signals! > Phil Payne - where > are you? Well, pessimist that I am, I figure that current IBM management has a mind set of "milk as much from the current zSeries customers as we can and when they all get disgusted with us on zSeries, sell them some other architecture system like a pSeries or iSeries". IOW, they seem to want to kill zSeries. One nice way is their Linux on zSeries. Why? Because they can get current zSeries z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE customers converted onto Linux on the zSeries. Then, when the zSeries is killed, they can say that their Linux investment is OK because Linux will run on xSeries, iSeries, pSeries. OK, I'm likely wrong in the above. I'm just not very pleased with IBM right now on this subject and am venting. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer > Milwaukee Wisconsin > 414-475-7434 -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
