Re: V6R1

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Urbanek, Marty wrote:

> I am aware of one 390 emulator, Flex-ES that can be used to put together
> a small "mainframe" for development. It runs on Intel CPUs and has IBM's
> blessing as far as software (i.e. they'll let you get a special license
> to run z/OS and associated program products). We had a couple of these
> running under SCO UNIX for a while. Very cool.

Sigh. Mainframes emulated with IBM's blessing, but no i5/OS...

However, I'm not sure that I'd like to bet my business on running 
beta versions of the OS for testing my apps on a 3rd-party emulator.

Especially now:

http://www.tech-news.com/another/ap200610b.html
and particularly:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/zseries/adcd.html

From the IBM page:

"Please note: The FLEX-ES systems are not currently available."

Looks like we're back almost on a par with the 390s.

Tom Liotta

> from: Tom Liotta <qsrvbas>
>
> rob wrote:
>
> > I think you're just going to have to accept that hardware in the 
> > iSeries is going to be more expensive than hardware in the xSeries.
>
> Kinda makes me wonder what mainframe software developers have to go
> through in terms of expense.
>
> We choose our markets.