Google's Connect:Fedexnet...

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Richter
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,73007-0.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Transactions per Watt

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Richter
Great article suggesting Measure transactions/wattif you don't measure it, you can't improve it IBM should jump on this since this is a strength of z/OS transaction workloads and zLinux server consolidation. I have not seen any statements of power efficiency on a transaction/watt metric.

Re: Mainframe vs. Server (Was Just another example of mainframe costs.)

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Richter
I realize that this is not constructive, but the url below is an ad for Windows 386. It does make the point that Micrsoft spoke to the customer's need for IT empowerment. z/OS zLinux still do not have a compelling empowerment message. You can't sell someone a product if they don't percieve

Re: Just another example of mainframe costs.

2007-01-09 Thread Bill Richter
Many hardware and software vendors maximize profits by promoting server solutions verus mainframe. SAS is an interesting software vendor to extend this inquiry to. Does SAS maximize profits by not licensing their products to Linux for zSeries? On the hardware side, do DASD vendors maximize

Re: Oracle on System z.

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Richter
You may want to check out the zSeries Oracle Special Interest Group. The International zSeries Oracle SIG is a loosely organized group of companies that have a license for Oracle on z/OS and Linux on the zSeries hardware. There are no membership fees or obligations. Communications are done

SAS for Linux on zSeries

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Richter
It appears that SAS runs quite well on Linux for zSeries. However, SAS DOES NOT HAVE A LICENSE generally available for Linux on zSeries due to the lack of interest from their customers. I find that quite amazing, that the zSeries community does not have interest in running SAS on Linux for

The 1% Rule

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Richter
Interesting. IBM-MAIN postings probably follow this rule. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Google Architecture

2006-06-30 Thread Bill Richter
100,000 foot view of GFS GFS is not the future. But it shows us what the future can be. http://storagemojo.com/?page_id=152 http://storagemojo.com/?page_id=153 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Google Architecture

2006-06-30 Thread Bill Richter
with the advent of Google Checkout, a heavy-duty TP application, the company must have one. What architecture is Google using to provide high-performance, large-scale transaction processing? http://storagemojo.com/?p=177

Google Architecture

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Richter
It appears that Google architecture is the antithesis of conventional mainframe application achitecture in all aspects. http://labs.google.com/papers/googlecluster-ieee.pdf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IBM z9 upgrade and the SW pricing benefit

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Richter
For those that may be interested the archive URL and option to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is: http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/lpar-pricing-l.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to