Re: IBM pricing (was "URGENT! really low performance. A related question...")

[Ronald Wells]

They should follow what Gate's did in the beginning---give it away and nail
ya later on Maint./upgrades.
But then again how about IBM doing something really strange ... listen to
customers getting nailed on all the pricing by third part vendors as well
as IBM because it is a MAINFRAME ...guess it is true--IBM is trying to Kill
MVS/S-390/z-OS/VM/VSE--depends what flavor you are. If you run it on a zBOX
better open up the wallet