Hello! If you want an observer's perspective, I'd say this is good news. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:06 PM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > Given that IBM is now allowing 3rd party vendors to use the SCRT processing > infrastructure to collect usage data, the thought occurred to me: could this > be used to do usage-based pricing for Linux and Linux-based applications? > Some mapping of Linux features/functions to SMF type 70 and 89 records would > have to be done, and the various distributors would need to register > application types, but all the other infrastructure is there and the usage > data reporting piece already exists for Linux (it's a Java app). > > The idea here is that if the distributors could get accurate usage data, they > could offer usage-based pricing, which would lower the entry level for > getting started with Linux on Z and avoid some of the sticker shock. > > Thoughts? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
