I admit it's been decades since I looked at the mini space, but isn't the Prime Directive in IBM-land that "Everything down to the last bit of memory has to be licensed and authorized by IBM" ?
And I thought another reason folks went for S/36's and AS/400's was because they would continue running through anything less that a direct nuclear detonation overhead. Why would the folks who are used to, and relying on, that want to trust "the Cloud" for their critical stuffs? (especially in light of the recent Amazon pooch-screwing with AWS)
Just curious, really, about whether this has legs or not. I'm not trying to poop on Skytap.