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title: Why not create a slushfund for zSeries?
date: 2005-11-09T23:59:06Z
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Seems like a good if off the wall idea, so I posted it [here](http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/how_about_a_san.html).



> _Why not include extra capacity- say 10%- with every mainframe shipped, as a new workload sandbox? Just call it a slush fund for customers. Its effectively free money, off the books, to be applied to new workloads, for new developments. Don’t charge $125k for it._