-----Original Message----- Howard Brazee
> Does IBM want to sell xNix mainframes? If they sell, yes! >Or are they orienting differently - to sell powerful database machines, powerful application servers, powerful web >servers... ? Isn't that what a z/OS box is? >Or would they be happy to be out of the computer hardware business >altogether? When PCs became a commodity, they got out of that >business. Do they foresee business computer hardware becoming a >commodity? PC's were a commodity long before they sold the business. The question is more of are the (estimated) 10,000 z/OS licenses (equals how many shops?) worth the continued investment in the 360-z architecture? The fact that the z10 was a 'new' platform shows they are/do consider it worthwhile. Of course it could just be a step towards emulating z/Architecture over another instruction set. I heard someone make the comment that even the z10 (and possibly earlier) were RISC with CISC in the milli-micro-etc. code? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
