On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:43:17 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve Thompson writes: >>Meanwhile, IBM is RUNNING from the low end customers. They aren't out >>there marketing to the bottom end companies. Each system that comes out, >>the CPUs are how much faster than before? > >Myth buster reporting for duty. <Hardware cost and capacity details snipped> > >Where do these rumors start? > Software costs. Obviously you don't believe it, but many z/OS customers are leaving the platform because of software costs. Even big shops. You mentioned that people buy far too much capacity and use sub-capacity pricing to reduce the software costs way down. I'm sure there are some of those, but *many* others run at the ragged edge, upgrading in the smallest increments only when absolutely necessary. Often not until after significant amounts of work stop getting done. And often some of that work has been moved to other platforms because the business requires that it be done. Do you think those application owners would consider moving back to the mainframe that they were pushed off of? Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
