> Which cycles back to why Amazon doesn't offer z/Linux on a z13s for the > "discerning customer"
I would guess because the market is for Linux on Intel. Vicious cycle: no apps, no offering, no apps, ... Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 1:50 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 3:43 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
