Rus wrote on 14/02/2007 10:35:46 PM: > > "zIIP is designed to help free-up general computing capacity and > lower software costs for select workloads such as business > intelligence (BI), ERP and CRM on the mainframe. IBM will not impose > software charges on zIIP capacity1." > > Wonder why you believe that "select workloads" should be limited to > DB2 only applications? If IBM had wanted the zIIP's to only be for > DB2, they probably would not have allowed the interface to leave IBM.
What makes you think I think that ... :-) IBM put particular (marketing) effort into projecting the zIIP as a DB2 benefit. You and I and everybodies dog knew that creating an entity that could be dispatched on a zIIP just needed a little (non published) interface info. Not all the people capable of doing that work for ISVs or are Partnerworld members. For a lot of us that info *hasn't* left IBM. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
