On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:45, Grant Taylor <0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I find it very difficult to believe that some business couldn't rent out > tiny z/VM guests as VPSs for < $100 a month. Limited resources (storage > / CPU / DASD) would be perfectly fine for hobbyists & students. It's not obvious that the licence that such a business has from IBM would allow that. There have been questions on this list from time to time about where someone can go to buy commercial z/OS time, and there are a few answers. But it's still not clear what licence such providers may have with IBM. > I want to be crystal clear on something. I think that z/PDT is > perfectly acceptable for businesses, even small ones. It is only the > smaller / lower end market that it is a problem for. The z/PDT (both versions) is explicitly licensed for non-production use only. Even routine production builds for running on Real Iron are proscribed. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
