I, personally, believe the answer is number 2. IBM likely wants to kill
the zSeries.
Unlikely, I think. I can testify that IBM puts in a lot of effort
taking care of their largest customers, who are on z/OS with large DASD
farms. That is why they invented the 3390-27, 3390-54, and alternate
channel sets, all to expand the number of GB of disk that could be
attached to a single z/OS system. And I know that there are more
similar projects going on.
Innovation is a moderately-sized development shop. We just upgraded
from a z800 to a z9BC. I can't speak about IBM treatment of small
developers.
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
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