Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-23 Thread Scott Rowe
I would guess that it means it is the 1st generation of the zEnterprise, and his has a max of 96 cores. >>> Edward Jaffe 7/22/2010 6:57 PM >>> Shane Ginnane wrote: > Oh joy - yet another pricing model from IBM. > I still don't understand the last umpteen iterations. > I'm still trying to fig

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Zelden
sion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Field, Alan C. >Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 Thursday 5:14 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing > >First generation, 96 cores > >- Original Message - >Fro

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-23 Thread Stan Weyman
takes faster... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John P. Baker Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing I have a thought. D2X(196)

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
Number of capacity options maybe. Shane ... On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:57:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: > I'm still trying to figure out where "196" comes from. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Riedel, Alexander
Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing >First generation, 96 cores First generation of what? To me, the last "first generation" was the first 64bit machine, the "z900

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
>First generation, 96 cores First generation of what? To me, the last "first generation" was the first 64bit machine, the "z900". To bad they had chosen to name it "900"; a bit difficult to increment for the next generation. So they came out with "z9" which could be reasonably incremented to "z1

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread John P. Baker
6:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing I'm still trying to figure out where "196" comes from. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 ed

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Field, Alan C.
I don't know that one. The 1 96 came from an IBMer during a discussion recently. - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu Jul 22 20:22:08 2010 Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing Really? Want t

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing First generation, 96 cores - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu Jul 22 17:57:28 2010 Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing Shane Ginnane wrote: > Oh joy -

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Field, Alan C.
First generation, 96 cores - Original Message - From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu Jul 22 17:57:28 2010 Subject: Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing Shane Ginnane wrote: > Oh joy - yet another pricing model from IBM.

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Edward Jaffe
Shane Ginnane wrote: Oh joy - yet another pricing model from IBM. I still don't understand the last umpteen iterations. I'm still trying to figure out where "196" comes from. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x31

Re: New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Shane Ginnane
Oh joy - yet another pricing model from IBM. I still don't understand the last umpteen iterations. At least it keeps folks like Al in a job. Shane ... On Fri, Jul 23rd, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Al Sherkow wrote: > The z196 will also have a new pricing metric "Advanced Workload License > Charges" descr

New zEnterprise 196 Hardware, AWLC and IBM Software Pricing

2010-07-22 Thread Al Sherkow
Cross Posted (MXG-L, ISVCOSTS, IBM-MAIN) Today IBM announced the zEnterprise 196, a new mainframe system available in September that will also offer a BladeCenter extension available in November. The US announcement letter is 110-170. The z196 will also have a new pricing metric "Advanced Work