On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:41:54 -0800, Gibney, Dave wrote: >Yahbut, and this is as I understood it to be, and whatever. > >It still does not address the primary criticism we get from the squatty >box people. That is: > >IT STILL REQUIRES AN !OUTRAGOEUSLY! !EXPENSIVE! SERVICE, ETC TO GET THE >TIME INTO THE z/BOX!!! > >Which by the way is totally free for any other platform I know about. > TANSTAAFL.
It costs CPU cycles, network bandwidth, memory footprint (real or virtual). I'll grant there's a matter of degree. And the price was set to maximize revenue. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
