Re: Free/Cheap Midrange access?

Those darn companies...wanting a business case for every little thing!

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Mitchell, Dana <dmitche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

According to RFC 1925: With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

Same problem exists in the z world. z/OS can run just fine on a PC
running Hercules, you just can't get an IBM license to run it legally.
For qualified IBM PartnerWorld(r) independent software vendor (ISV)
members, they sell zPDT that allows mainframe operating systems, middleware
and software to run on 'approved' x86 platforms for approx. $3K - $11K per
year.

Everything at IBM has to be justified by the business case. The bean
counters price it high enough to keep out the riff-raff and make sure the
revenue pays for development and support costs. They aren't interested in
offering z/OS free or a cheap 'hobbyist' type of license to get people
interested in the platform and it's capabilities, that might even possibly
result in expanded use or a larger pool of talent available. This topic
has been discussed multiple times on IBM-MAIN mailing list. :(

Dana




-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 9:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Free/Cheap Midrange access?

Ya gotta look at the business case for IBM right? Of what business use
would it be to build a stack like that with IBM i on the top? Pretty much
zero I'm thinking. So while it would be great for hobbyists and such NObody
would run their business on that nor would they decide because of playing
with that to run their business on IBM i.

So yeah, "when pigs fly". :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 5/29/2015 10:21 AM, Dan wrote:

Pretty sure that would be in the category of "when pigs fly".

To be honest, even I checked out that link. A guy's gotta dream, right?

- Dan

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This IBM effort is for running linux only... I do not expect IBm to
enable this to run i at all...

Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Best regards

Holger Scherer

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