[rescue] (Oracle Adopting Linux) is not good news,

[Julius Sridhar]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > > IBM seems to have gotten the idea...
> >
> > They are claiming to have gotten some sales of zSeries machines
> > specifically because of Linux.
>
> i can believe this.  do you know how much it costs to get operating system
> software for mainframes?  it makes most other HARDWARE look cheap.  that's
> some expensive damn software.

The latest OS licensing schedule for OS/390 is something like
$10,000/year, but the machine itself is about $175,000 in a minimum
configuration.

Peace...  Sridhar