Mark, If the way for people without a z10 has been "somewhat of a pain to arrange," and the new method removes that pain, with the added pain that need a z10, a machine that isn't (as of yet) available in a small scale version, IBM is indeed coming up short. What percentage of IBM customers own z10's? What percentage are under pressure from management to justify the alleged high expense of IBM mainframes, and could benefit from an evaluation of z/VM and Linux for System z? I will bet that the second number is close to a factor of 10 higher than the first number.
Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM Evaluation Edition Now Available >>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:04 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] om>, "Ceruti, Gerard G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David > > For us folks who are only looking to get z10 late this year early next > 2009, is there not a way to evaluate on a z9.? For some time now, it has been the case that IBM is willing to provide z/VM for a no-cost evaluation. (And not just z/VM, but IFLs and real storage.) It's just been something of a pain to arrange, since there wasn't an official offering for that, so there was a lot of bureaucracy involved. That option is still available to people that don't have a z10, or likely to have one soon. So, in essence, the only thing that has changed is that z10 owners have a much easier way to evaluate z/VM for a proof of concept project than was available before. Hence, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth and condemnations of IBM for "coming up short" are totally unfounded. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
