IIRC, the z800/z890/z900/z990 are "near death". I seem to recall the NO CHANGES announcement. i.e. no model conversions or MES's.
The z/10's are out and this is 2 hardware generations back. Even in your situation, this seems to be a bad idea. Point out the financial's. The z9/BC is "paid for". After the lease expires, a new lease can be negotiated at a lower price. That may be enough to tip the scale the other way. TCO is different than cost! <snip> I am ashamed to have to ask this at all. We currently have a z9BC. A high manager has found what he considers a great deal on a used z800 that he want to convert back when our lease expires. Anyway, does anybody have a pointer to some authoritive documentation which would relate a z9BC MSU to a z800 MSU? I.e. if we have a 4hr rolling average MSU of 40 on a z9BC, that would roughly translate to ??? MSUs on a z800. We use SCRT for billing, so if the MSUs go up for the equivalent work (as I believe they will), then this deal will be far less desirable. I would say more, but I need to keep my job. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
