> On Tuesday, 04/12/2011 at 12:17 EDT, "David L. Craig" <d...@radix.net> > wrote: > > Now we get to wait for the announcements of licensing and support > fees > > for all the various software available for this platform. That has > > the potential to take the bloom off the rose. > > IBM is forthright in saying that the virtual servers running in the > zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) run on PowerVM or KVM > hypervisors.
Ding ding ding! Unsupported virtualization detected. Arm pricing specialists, Mr. Sulu! > It's not another "platform" that the vendors will need to certify, and > so > you should expect the same licensing model as if these were standalone > BladeCenters. Assuming they do not have language in their licenses that prohibit running the software in any environment that they do not explicitly have pricing models published, eg Microsoft. SAP. Peoplesoft. Oracle. Etc. Dave Craig is right: read that fine print. IBM has just triggered the next wave of pricing wars. -- db
