Hobart Spitz wrote, in part: >The case *for *Pipes in the z/OS base.:
> 2. Hardware usage would drop for customers. >From IBM's perspective, that might not be a positive argument. It should be-they're hopefully not fooling themselves that they have a lock on enterprise computing any more, so anything that makes life more palatable for the remaining faithful at low cost to IBM should be A Good Thing-but I can easily imagine someone saying, "We estimate this will reduce MIPS purchases by x%, that's bad, don't do it". Just sayin'. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN