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It seems very strange to pay for usage on hardware only you can use.
by UltraSane 1y ago
It seems very strange to pay for usage on hardware only you can use.
- p_l 1y agoBut profitable to IBM, and counts as OpEx not CapEx for accounting. A bit like cloud. But if you want they will ship it to you, or just setup a VPN or even a more dedicated connection (say, MPLS) to one of their datacenters. Or even sell it to you cloud style, running on LPAR/zVM. They also tend to send you a more filled out mainframe (more CPU, more memory) so you can be flexible with utilization or "pay on demand" for more occassionally.