... except that they are pushing Linux on Z. Linux is the ultimate commodity business.
I have heard those who should know refer to the IBM Z business as a cash cow. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 1:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Right. How does a smallish business get going on z/OS? > > (Answer: they don't.) > I think I understand why IBM does this, not that I agree with them. Look at all the press recently about Wintel (PC sales down) and even Linux. It appears that this segment of the "computing population" is a low margin segment. IBM simply doesn't want to bother with it. They prefer a small number of high margin sales to the bother of a large number of low margin sales. I don't know of anything which is high margin (profit per unit) and high sales (because most can't afford). I wonder what the margin is on z hardware itself (sans software). I also wonder what the margins are on the z operating systems: z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF & z/VM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
