Gradual fade? Mainframes process more transactions now that at any point in history. And will process more 10 years from now than today.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 8:53 AM, Pommier, Rex <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> wrote: Unfortunately that (pricing) train left the station a long time ago. For whatever reason IBM chose to keep the mainframe a niche product with fantastic I/O capabilities but a high price tag, thus ensuring its gradual fade. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 5:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF On 27/06/2023 11:35 pm, Pommier, Rex wrote: > If a company is using a 20 MSU system and is forced to buy a 200 MSU system > because that's the smallest available, unless something drastic happens to > hardware AND software pricing, the company isn't going to be looking for > "what else can I put on this expensive and woefully underutilized machine", > they're going to be looking at "where can I move my 20 MSUs worth of > processing to get rid of this expensive machine". Again, the assumption is that the pricing was adjusted so it was not more expensive. 200 MSU was just to pick a number. It probably should be higher. What is the speed of a desktop PC these days? I am guessing my 4 year old PC is around 600-700 MSU equivalent? A Raspberry Pi about 40-60 MSU? And 4 or more cores makes a lot of problems go away. It would be good if z/OS at the low end had kept up with the performance and price improvements in the rest of the industry. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
