A completely uneducated guess would be > 50%, and perhaps as high as
90%. Shops that are already comfortable with the IBM mainframe 'mindset'
are much more willing, imho, to consider migrating workload to z/VM and
Linux than organizations that have no previous mainframe experience.
Schuh, Richard wrote:
Out of curiosity, what percentages of the new licenses are for shops
that fit the category "z/OS shops who bring in Linux and z/VM"?
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:32 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Ops privs
On Sunday, 08/26/2007 at 10:18 EDT, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Bundle RACF??? That might be a blow to the users of VM:Secure and
other
ESMs.
Is it? Let's think about that:
The only way it is possible to ship RACF installed and enabled with the
z/VM base is to provide a "snap out" ordering feature (a la z/OS) that
ships with RACF uninstalled and disabled. The "snap out" feature
results
in a price reduction equal to the price of RACF.
The rules for this sort of thing were ironed out by lawyers in prior
centuries and are well established.
1) The major difference between RACF and the alternatives is that all
of
the alternatives are easier to use, administer, operate and
understand.
I'm sorry, David, but your brush is too broad. z/OS shops who bring in
Linux and z/VM usually prefer RACF on z/VM as it is much easier for them
to use, administer, operate, and understand. Why? Because RACF is
extremely popular with z/OS customers.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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V/Soft
