On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> ... 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. > Which, I guess, means that the hardware, all on it's own, has a high enough margin. But I'm still not likely to find a z13s at the mom & pop fast food place like I would a PC or two. Probably not even in a high priced law firm. But I can see a z13s running Linux as a "cloud server" to those types of businesses. Which cycles back to why Amazon doesn't offer z/Linux on a z13s for the "discerning customer". I guess because Amazon prefers a farm of nearly identical servers. I know here (where I work), I.T. management wants to be all Wintel and I'm convinced it is because they simply don't really know how to manage a z/OS ecosystem. > > 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 > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
