On 04/25/2012 01:53 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:36:19 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
The "march" toward a personal use z/OS license takes another step forward ...
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS212-145/ENUS212-145.PDF
"... Additionally, the [Rational Developer and Test Environment for System z]
product can now be purchased as a stand-alone entry point into the Rational
development solutions for System z. This lowers the cost of initial purchase,
opening the environment for use by developers, testers, and operations
personnel, and provides an easier path to adoption for traditional mainframe
developers looking to modernize their development and test processes
and infrastructure."
Dongle. Intel/Linux hosted. No APAR support.
-- gil
...
Dongle, don't like but could live with. Intel/Linux hosting, not
unreasonable. The big unanswered question not mentioned anywhere in the
pdf document is the cost.
The big problem with something like zPDF was that it still had a minimum
$20K - $30K per year cost. A quick read of this latest offering
suggests it still has an annual license charge per user, but if there
was any clue on price range I missed it. Perhaps there are other
on-line resources that clarify.
Having a personal z/OS to occasionally play with would be so cool. But,
the intended target here still appears to be businesses, which no doubt
means it's priced accordingly and out of range for casual personal use!
Speaking for those of us not in the top 1%, even $5K per year would be
way more than I currently budget for all my home personal computing, so
I doubt this new offering yet approaches what I could justify as an
entertainment expense.
I baulked at MicroSoft's concept that in response to MS's agenda, and
not mine, I should be willing to shell out $100's per home platform
every several years for the privilege of having to re-learn all the
familiar user interfaces, force-upgrade other application software, and
still expend significant resources on "protection software" -- which is
why my primary home systems have been SE Linux (Fedora) for several
years. A cost of $1000's per year for "cool" wouldn't fly for me.
--
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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