35 mip Sent from my iPhone Steve Beaver
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 15:33, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote: > > 35 MIP or 35 MSU? > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 9:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud > Services? > > > If you look at equipment resellers, you can get a 35 MIP z10 for next to > nothing. You still need storage and communications and software like CICS > and power > > > Steve Beaver > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Bigendian Smalls" <mainfr...@bigendiansmalls.com> > Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 10:33am > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud > Services? > > > > Timothy - > > I did read all the links on your page - it’s what prompted the rant. And, > likewise, if you read my post in its entirety, you know that 15 days of a > “test-drive of development-based tools on Z” does positively and unquivocally > zero to address the items I enumerated. No way that testdrive (and its anemic > 15 day limit) would provide an intelligent person an even remotely fighting > chance of learning anything useful about the platform with which to make a > decision on schooling, trade or vocation. Is there value in the link you > provided? Sure. Does it address anything I said. Nope. > > Respectfully, > > Chad > > >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 12:40 AM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: >> >> Bigendian Smalls wrote: >>> TL;DR - there needs to be a free version of z/os & it’s siblings >>> sooner >> than >>> later, to not do this is to potentially starve the platoform out of >> existence >>> as we know it. >> >> Didn't anybody read the page that I linked to? There is, already. For >> up to >> 15 days. >> >> Charles Mills wrote: >>> What??? THIS is IBM's answer??? >> >> As a reminder, I do not speak for IBM. If you'd like *IBM's* answer, >> ask IBM through an official channel. *My* answer, writing only for >> himself, is to state a plain fact: free z/OS access is available, >> today, from IBM, for up to 15 days. I believe in facts. Let's at least >> start with them. IBM probably will if you're going to make an argument with >> IBM. >> >> Scott Chapman wrote: >>> I don't see anything there that says one can do real ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
