>There is a long and tortuous story behind it all Tom - one >that only Lewis Carroll or Terry Pratchett could have thought up. >A product of bean-counters and sales-droids trying to make up for >the fact they'd strangled the goose that had lain all those golden >eggs for decades.
No, not really, or at least don't blame IBM. The primary and probably only reason sub-capacity general purpose engines exist is to provide increased licensing granularity for full capacity licensed software. Something very close to 100% of IBM mainframe software is available for licensing in sub-capacity quantities below/independent of server capacities. You can thus draw your own conclusions about why sub-capacity processor options exist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
