wow, your DBAs have the authority to spend that kind of money and make that kind of change without management signature? So no financial analysis, no technical reason, sounds religious.
CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) wrote:
We just had a surprise announcement by one of the Oracle DBAs during a zLinux & Application group planning meeting at our worksite. The DBA advised us that they (Database group) were going to move/migrate all the Oracle databases that we have on zLinux boxes off to an intel/unix platform. He did not offer details of the hardware, or when or how, just that they were going to do it. This is a bite of a surprise as we have just moved our MQ off the Mainframe (zOS) to the zLinux platform (guests on zVM) and that move is doing well. This may be due in part to the false mindset that we have in our upper management at our site that Mainframes are old technology. Also we have had slow response from Oracle on resolving issues we have identify (certifying Oracle 11 on z390x architecture, getting Oracle 10 support for RHEL 5.0 on z390x architecture). Has anyone else on this list had any related "war stories" similar to what we may be about to experience as this move takes place? James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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