Re: Hercules MIPs

On Friday, April 16, 2010 halfmeg wrote:
> Reading a little of the controversy about TurboHercules and other
> blog posts, I ran across this one at:
> http://blogs.sun.com/jsavit/entry/hercules_goes_commercial
> which has a comment in October of 2009 by Tom Lehmann of
> TurboHercules which blew me away. I had been thinking a Hercules
> platform might only be suitable for small ancillary workloads. His
> comment [...] makes me realize that IBM equipment could actually be
> replaced if the licensing issues are resolved.

I think IBM must have been well aware of this potential before we all
discovered it, and this could explain why they were so keen to take
first PSI, then Flex, and now TurboHercules out of the picture before
too many customers start realizing it too.

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Regards,
Roger Bowler
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Hercules "I can't believe it's not a mainframe!"