24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
10:18 a.m.
On 10/24/10 12:14 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
The z900 was withdrawn from marketing three or four years ago, which
makes them pretty much "last years' model" in the mainframe world.
They're still supported.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Presumably they haven't "gone after
people" for running Linux on
Hercules, so it seems unlikely that they would go after someone for
running Linux on a z900. We can't presume to know what an eBay buyer
would run on it.
You still need the LIC to run Linux, and the LIC is what's tightly
controlled. One can get operating systems pretty easily, but not LIC
images.
they will
definitely go after someone with real hardware. Especially a
current machine. This is not some ancient retiree we are discussing,
this is a z900 that you can still buy brand new.
I'll admit that I'm not very expert on such things, so I could be
mistaken, but this looks to be an 8 year old model to me, not one that
"you can still buy new".