On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:09:57 -0500, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote:
>On 30 January 2013 13:34, Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: >> On 1/30/2013 10:30 AM, John McKown wrote: >>> >>> >From what I remember, zPDT can only be used for "software development" >>> activities. Yes, you can run CICS and DB2 on it. But not "production >>> work". I.e. you can't have your company's general end-users logging >>> onto CICS and doing production work which "runs the business". I guess >>> they could do QA testing. >> >> >> zPDT is for software developers only. RD&T (based on exactly the same >> technology) is for customers. >> >> http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/devtest/systemz/ > >Sure, but for customers to do development and testing only. Absolutely >no production, or even production-like builds. Still no low-end zArch >machines for a small company to run prod on. > >Tony H. > Thanks Tony! thats exactly my point. Since IBM sells z, Power and intel boxen, they don't have to be competetive with themselves, that could be seen as canabilazation. IBM i is in a similar position in IBM as z/OS customers. Most that could easily convert off have done so. The ones left must pay the premium price to continue running. Dana ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
