I completely agree with you. I have been completely fascinated and astounded by the capabilities of the System Z (and also System P in my case), yet utterly fla

I completely agree with you. I have been completely fascinated and astounded by the capabilities of the System Z (and also System P in my case), yet utterly flabbergasted and disgusted by the incompetence of IBM in business dealings. For example, the hypervisor on P series has been around since the introduction of Power5 and it allows you to create micro-LPARS with a small fraction of the CPU resources. Even back in the Power5 days, there was something called entitled capacity that lets you specify the minimum amount of CPU resources your LPAR would receive even if the entire server is being hammered simultaneously. It's an engineering marvel. Back then it was called APV. I believe it's called PowerVM these days. I'm sure that most people in our industry have no idea that this capability exists, let alone that it's been around since Power5. Sad, really.