And once again, the pricing is out of an average hobbyist's buying league. A one-time charge (not annual!) of $3,750 might not be too bad for a really dedicated hobbyist or retiree, but $3,750 a year for one virtual CPU? $11,750 (a year!) for only 3 CPU's, and they are throttled so as not to perform too well on intel hardware besides?
Not hobbyist friendly at all. ISV-friendly, for sure, but only for the ones already earning a profit, or at least with sufficient financing now and potential future profits. $299 for the dongle that enables it is high as well, but at that price it ought to allow up to at least 16 CPU threads, not 3, and not throttled either. The rest of the pricing is commercial, not hobbyist. My suspicion (complete speculation of course) is that IBM are afraid of the unfriendly-country military/spook hackers (pick'em yourself) rather than true hobbyists. Or maybe it's just $greed$, who knows. Somebody(ies) MBO(s) and bonus no doubt depend(s) on the high-margin profitability of zPDT. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 4:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why not an IBM personal use z/OS license? (Was "Installation Improvements (was ...") On 10/4/2016 12:09 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > That said, why is IBM so antagonistic to z/OS running on non-Z hardware? https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/pw_com_zpdt -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
