Lets decrypt the name
z13s i9s is that ZzzZzzzZzzzZzzzz security? or sleeping security?
IBM’s new entry-level mainframe, the z13s, makes its debut next month and the company’s press blurb makes for instructive reading, not least because it has very little to say about the actual spec. Instead, there is much enthusiasm about the security features and services assembled for the z Systems server family. The server …
Is a 20- or 30-deep stack trace really better than following the pointers in z/OS control blocks?
In terms of developer productivity (over the full application life cycle) demonstrably better in present web development environments than in the bad old days when programmers used an obligate single threaded language - COBOL - and had only to worry about a small number of inputs and producing a small number of outputs? If so, how much of that is due to better understanding of application system design and project managment?
No, I don't really care about the price, just winning the lottery.
Ages ago I was on the IBM website and on a lark configured a collection of System-x, enough to fill a rack. Came to $989,804.00. The next morning I received a note from IBM that I now had a Partner Account Manager to go along with dev account. Now if did win the lottery I'll definitely follow up.
To be fair the cost of any large machine is complicated.
I think the fair equivalence is check which check mark which items you want from column a then column b etc. etc. etc. add them up and that is the cost. Your IBM rep is able to do it on their HONE system and give you a bottom line figure.
Software alas is a different animal and with this you need to do some wheeling and dealing with both IBM and what ever vendor(s) you have. Some will deal and some will not and it will cost you dearly if they don't.