Phil, My issue with cloud computing and multiple z/OS it’s not structured financially for small ISVs like us. Cost is a big issue with us..
Scott On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:22 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, so what do we mean by "cloud"? What *customers* seem to mean is "a > compute platform where I can run my stuff but not have to deal with buying > hardware and racking and cabling it and in general all the work of running > a data center". By which definition, of course, traditional timesharing > fits. > > > > For x86, this is currently AWS and Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft > Azure (and not HPE Helion). For z, it's more like the IBM Dallas developer > systems, where you can rent a virtual machine that runs z/OS or z/VM or > Linux, and then do whatever you want with that OS. > > > > My conclusion is that the vendors (and IBM) who are saying "IBM Z and > cloud" are not being honest with themselves. Calling a tail a leg doesn't > make it one, and saying "We like IBM Z and it *can* do cloud-ish stuff, > therefore we will say it's good for cloud" is not a rational (much less > convincing) argument. > > > > Again, I'd love to be proven wrong. But the relative silence on this > thread tends to suggest that nobody else buys it either. Well, nobody > besides Ginny & Co. > > > > .phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
