Would not, could not, without a box... The contention (not entirely crazy) is that if they provide ANY service at all, they'll lose money. "Oh, so don't offer any service." Right, but then (they fear) people will report problems using their work system, so *de facto* they'll be servicing these other systems. And/or "No business will buy services without support".
But in this modren [sic] age, I've often thought that they could TRY it and see, then kill it if it didn't meet their goals, eh? On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Is there any good reason IBM could not offer Cloud Z starting at $0? Would > not? > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Scott Chapman > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 3:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud > Services? > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 13:54:27 -0500, Steve <st...@stevebeaver.com> wrote: > > >If you look at the sheer cost if setting up a zOS ecosystem, its not > cheap. > > Yeah, that's the key point not mentioned in the article: building your > system on AWS starts at $0. However... AWS costs can add up too. Most of > their rates are in pennies, but those pennies do add up eventually. But the > free tiers do help get customers hooked. So in total the idea of the > article that z scales more cost effectively than AWS may be fair, but doing > direct apples-to-apples comparisons is difficult. > > But until we can say z/OS starts at $0, and we make it as easy to try as > AWS, getting new z/OS customers is going to be a struggle because new > organizations are going to start in the cloud. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
