Re: The Design of Design

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:

According to Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de>:

Yes, but remember that includes softwre revenue, which has higher
margins than hardware revenue.  I believe I saw somewhere that IBM made
more from MVS, DB2, CICS, etc.

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SAP S4/HANA is going to hurt their bottom line, then.  Earlier
versions of SAP could, I understand, run on zOS and DB2, S4/HANA
requires SAP's in-house database and requires Linux.

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I dunno how much of a problem it'll be. IBM has put a lot of work into
getting zSeries to run Linux well.

They won't get DB2 royalties, though.  I'm also not sure what they
could charge for Linux vs. zOS.

I realize neither you nor I would buy a mainframe to run Linux, but we
wouldn't run SAP either.

Certainly not :-)

I've worked with SAP's user interface a bit, for entering hours
for accounting.  The user intrface, well, let's just say it took
longer to get used to than I used it (quite a few years).