Alan, Thankx for your response...from an IBM business perspective this makes sense.
It is interesting to inquire from a customer perspective if customers would be willing to pay more for an AIX zSeries special purpose engine and for the AIX license. For example, what if the IFA cost $250,000 per engine? Would the architectural benefit and workload management economies incent customers to pursue AIX on an IFA. It would be interesting to see what kind of power factor licensing metric IBM would apply to the AIX license. This would force IBM to put a stake in the ground regarding tade offs between "unix server" workload performance and throughput versus "unix on z". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
