Radoslaw writes: >Less less floor space/electricity/air condition ? >Timothy, c'mon! That's typical sales rep mantra ! >Probably you've seen 9037-2. It is in PC desktop size.
Agreed, for most shops these are minor issues for the 9037s, at least in isolation (although minor <> nonzero). I did say that everybody is different and that your mileage may vary. That list, which included other attributes, was an attempt to be reasonably thorough. I get dinged when I'm not, so maybe I can't win. :-) Ed Gould writes: >Just curious about the offering. IBM seems to think (if I understand >what is being offered correctly). That most mainframes are hooked up >to the internet. While this may be true for some companies, I suspect >it is not true for most. The sysplex timer (IMO) was a costly >"feature" IMO it really didn't offer a real payback. While it may >have been nice to have it really wasn't high on anyones list of got >to have this. I worked at a place that had one and IMO it was a box >that not vary many people had a clue what it was. They were required for GDPS, so that's where you'd see a lot of them. I think you're onto something, though. My suspicion is that STP will be more popular since it's an integral feature rather than "yet another box." That idea runs counter to Radoslaw's basic point that more boxen is no big deal. But it's a very real phenomenon, at least psychologically. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
