Quite frankly most of us have been in this business long enough to know there is NO perfect system. Each system is suited for different things. I believe we on this list are trying on daily to determine what the best uses of linux on 390/Z hardware are. There will be and have been failures, but without the failures we would not have our success.
regards Phil Tully Martin Stricker wrote: > > John Summerfield wrote: > > > > I think Martin Stricker has just joined - I suggested he do so > > > > He has a few Linux servers round, a lot of NT servers. There is a > > zSeries machine to hand. > > > > Get ready with your handy hints on "How to Persuade Management to Keep > > That zMachine And Consolidate Servers On It;-)" > > Thanks for the introduction, John! I'm here since Wednesday May 29 > morning (German time), but I had to leave my home computer (and thus > access to my private and list mail) until just now. I'm trying to catch > up, and I'm not only interested in suit LART stuff but also (and mostly) > in the *technical* merits and drawbacks of using Linux on S/390 as > opposed to Intel (aqnd Alpha and other) hardware architectures. And > don't tell me there are no drawbacks - I don't believe in The Perfect > System... ;=D > > Best regards, > Martin Stricker > -- > Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ > Webmaster-Forum: http://www.masterportal24.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi > Red Hat Linux 7.2 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ > Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/