Begin Quoted E-mail ---------------------------------------------- then why couldn't the >customer buy z/OS and run the software on the machine.
You don't "buy" z/OS. You license it to run on a particular machne. > Of course the >customer would be taking some risk because the support would probably have >to come from PSI primarily and not IBM. Seems to me like in the Amdahl days >each machine was assigned a "Capacity ID" by IBM and that was used for >pricing of software. When Amdahl started selling processors, the operating system was free. When IBM started to charge for it, they knew how much power an Amdahl processor had and where it fit in the pricing structure. It's harder for them to know that with am emulator. What stops you from putting in faster processors, or additional processors? Tom Marchant End Quoted E-mail ---------------------------------------------- Excuse me for using the word "buy" -- I knew better that you license software. Upgrades have always been an issue in the "z" environment, now others are taking note of this and trying to do the same things for other platforms. So, there are a lot of devil in the details. Like how PSI would handle the CPU serial number and upgrades to the processor number and speed. I suppose they could change the serial number on an upgrade and force the customer to deal with IBM since the software is licensed to a CPU. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
