Re: Why are the FUD spreaders spreading FUD?

> A potential customer would like to see it demonstrated. No way 
> they're going to have a salesman mess with the consoles on their 
> production box! So I put a laptop with Herc or Flex or UMX in my 
> briefcase... or throw a P/390 in the back of the car, loaded with 
> OS/390...

I'm aware of the problem - I described it in public back in March 
last year, having discussed it with many IBMers for a year or so 
before that:

"Demonstrating System/390 applications has always been
 problematic; it is hard to do it effectively over a
 dial-up link - either the entire system has to be
 installed at the potential customer's site or all of the
 customer's decision makers have to journey to another
 demonstration data centre. The latter can be a little
 like herding cats. Only rarely can applications
 be demonstrated satisfactorily via dial-up links. Now,
 a humble IBM ThinkPad can run z/OS or Linux/390 under
 Linux - and fit in a salesman's briefcase."

http://www.isham-research.com/emulation_2002.html

For an ISV that qualifies for PWD, there is a solution, or at least 
one can be negotiated.  New IBM hardware is always involved, of 
course, though that's largely for reasons of channel politics.

There isn't an obvious solution to your scenario.  This is another 
manifestation of IBM's sizeism.