> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, David Boyes wrote: > > > Even further -- the $150 media kit for SuSE 7.0 was something that most > > places could buy without Acts of God or accountants -- even within the reac > h > > of someone's private wallet if push came to shove. That got them a lot of > > visibility. $11K/engine is not something that you can do on a private > > budget, and certainly not for an evaluation project. > > SuSE still offers a $4.500 evaluation version, which comes with the full > service of the full product.
That's way beyond any budget I'm likely to manage. To be sure I'm not going to run it on a real mainframe, but running Linux under Hercules on my Athlon is certainly something I can do. > > I'd be a lot happier if SuSE reinstated the media kits w/o support -- I lik > e > > their distribution, and I generally like their approach, but I don't see a > > good reason to pay for something I'm not going to use. I'm told that media > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > If you are not going to use it anyway, why you _need_ Linux on a mainframe? I > f > you just want to play with Linux, there is just the same Linux on a much > cheaper platform, e.g. ia32. If I were to write a paper proposing my management adopt Linux on S/390 or zSeries, it better address that. Not Linux on my PC, even under Hercules. > > Everybody who has a very good reason to run Linux on a mainframe can talk to > SuSE. If SuSE wants to sell it, let them make it easy for people to consider. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
