Like us, Phil is a vendor. For a vendor, the relevant questions are not "do any of these things exist somewhere and powered on?" but rather
- Are any of our customers running box X? (Should be a question that can be answer by better means than this listserve.) - Are there any customers (prospects if you will) running box X and *conceivably* in the market for new mainframe software (as opposed to "we're not spending another nickel on that thing" or hobbyists like Mr. Krukosky). Not criticizing anyone here. (In fact I sent a detailed private note to Phil with some of our specifics in this regard.) Just trying to shed my light on the subject from a practical point of view. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Earlier than a z9? Yes. I have a customer running OS/390 on an MP2000. We expect them to be off by the end of the year. We spent many an hour trying to find a way to move them to a current platform before they decided to put more dollars into their off-platform conversion. I have a customer running OS/390 on a z800. We recently moved a customer running OS/390 2.10 to a z/10. I had a customer decommission VM&VSE on an MP2000 less than one year ago. I know of several VSE shops running Integrated Servers. I know of several VSE shops running FSI Flex boxes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
