Hi, John.
You can learn a lot more about the zPDT itself and it's pricing options
here:
http://www.p390.com/zpdt.htm
DJ
On 11/10/2009 09:51 AM, McKown, John wrote:
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Declare yourself a developer, and get a zPDT license. IBM will legally
license z/VM and other OSes on zPDT. I'm sure you can think
of *something*
that you write and maintain that would be useful to someone else.
For those who missed it, zPDT is a emulated Z on Intel Linux that IBM
supports for small developers. Doesn't have all the bells and
whistles of
the z10 hardware, but on the other hand, most people don't
need all of them
either.
Nice to see that IBM bought a clue that most small
development shops CANNOT
afford a z10, and going from a 5 RU FlexES solution to
something that takes
up the entire data center is a losing proposition. I'd still
like to see a
hobbyist license program, but at least there is a somewhat practical
alternative again.
-- db
Do you happen to know the cost? Can you use your own hardware if you are
approved for the zPDT?
Found some redbooks on this at:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=zpdt
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