On Sunday, 04/16/2006 at 04:46 EST, Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our company is very willing to continue to pay version 3 price for version 5. If > IBM were to offer version 5 at version 3 price to its current customers now > running version 3 on flex almost all would take it.
Stephen, it wouldn't do any good for us to offer z/VM V5 to you for your S/390 FLEX box - not at any price. As I said at WAVV (and here, previously): z/VM V5 simply CANNOT run in S/390 mode. Really. It uses instructions and facilities that are available ONLY in z/Architecture (http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm520/architecture). For what it's worth, it won't run on a 9672 or Multiprise 3000, either. > The fact that other > customers with large IBM machines are paying much less for version 5 would not > matter. When and if a company grows its flex box to where it approaches the size > of a small IBM box, then having VM cheaper on the IBM box will make a > difference. It will encourage users of large flex boxes to go to an IBM box. z/VM V5 is already cheaper than V3 on the IBM box, so it doesn't make sense to me that the decision to move from a large FLEX box to an IBM box would revolve around the price of z/VM. The acquisition costs of a z/Architecture box appears to be the primary issue. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
