Rick Fochtman writes:
>Timothy, you're probably right as far as you go, but you, and other,
>seem to have forgotten a very important aspect of running that "cheap"
>z/800, etc. I refer to site preparation and operating costs. Not many of
>us can afford three-phase power in our basements or garages
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Rick Fochtman writes:
Timothy, you're probably right as far as you go, but you, and other,
seem to have forgotten a very important aspect of running that "cheap"
z/800, etc. I refer to site preparation and operating costs. Not many of
us can afford three-phase power in ou
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I don't have a clue how many installations license MVS today
According to a Canadian IBM'r, there are approximately 6,000 mainframe licences
world-wide.
To put it in perspective, there are approximately 230,000 Oracle licences.
Ted,
Others already criticised the numbers c
W. Kevin Kelley wrote:
Actually, its kind of funny that you mention the exits because I just finished
an APAR that greatly improves both the written documentation and the
mapping macro commentary for IEAVMXIT and the MPF exits.
W. Kevin Kelley IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> since you mentioned it, i somewhat ran into some of this with working
> on getting out virgil/tully (138/148) in th
R.S.
I didn't realize this until last December, but there is something you can do
with your Oracle licenses -- move them to another CPU. Strange as that may
seem, Oracle licenses are by the number of CPUs, so a PC with a dual core
Intel pays twice as much as a single core Intel. Likewise, a z/9
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 07:09 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
> Linux, Linux, and more Linux.
Not that I've noticed in this country - leastwise not on z/Series
> So I guess the message is "Kiss z/OS goodbye", eh?
Let's hope not.
Shane ...
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>Oracle licenses are by the number of CPUs, so a PC with a dual core Intel pays
>twice as much as a single core Intel.
Not exactly on that.
The price can vary depending on the manufacturer of the cpu chip.
I saw John Anderson's presentation at a recent CMG Canada.
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Alan Altmark wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:29:58 -0700, Edward Jaffe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raw license counts are a much less important measure than how much data is
stored and how many end users are accessing that data.
But, Ed, that's a technologhical view. If you charge on a
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