>If I recall from the marketing, you only 'buy' an IFL once and when you >upgrade your IFL's are already paid for. >Now if I can pick up this 2 IFL box for $10-20K can I just have IBM turn >on 2 IFL's on my z990 and just trash the z890?
No, I don't think so. You will then own two z890 IFLs. BUT, whenever you're ready to upgrade/consolidate to z9 or beyond, things may get more interesting. - - - - - 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
