Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-19 Thread Phil Payne
less software costs (one copy per engine vs one copy each for each boxes) then most other platforms. software costs lower. How many copies of Red Hat PC boxed set can you buy for a VM license ;) How much is a SuSe Linux/390 distribution these days? A German user told me yesterday that

Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-19 Thread Mike Ross
less software costs (one copy per engine vs one copy each for each boxes) then most other platforms. software costs lower. How many copies of Red Hat PC boxed set can you buy for a VM license ;) How much is a SuSe Linux/390 distribution these days? A German user told me yesterday

Re: AOL to purchase RedHat?

2002-01-19 Thread Post, Mark K
The URL is http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5064-2002Jan18.html. I don't know whether to throw up over this, yet, or not. I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19,

Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-19 Thread Rod Furey
I can give you a real world example which is based around an HP OpenView implementation that I'm aware of. 1 Support by 3rd party vendors The people responsible for first line support have Linux workstations. Every so often, the HPOV backup hangs. As soon as HPOV support is phoned they say that

Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-19 Thread Willem Konynenberg
Post, Mark K wrote: The distribution itself is not particularly expensive. The bundled support that SuSE requires to purchase the software is $11,000 (US) per engine for the 31-bit and $14,000 per engine for 64-bit systems. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Phil Payne

Re: netiucv question

2002-01-19 Thread Ronald Van Der Laan
Erwann wrote: I can't figure out why i can't use more than one iucv interface with the precompiled 2.4.9 debian kernel image (unstable) and also after recompilation of a 2.4.16 kernel insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.16/kernel/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.o: too many values for iucv (max 1) This is

Re: AOL to purchase RedHat?

2002-01-19 Thread Nick Gimbrone
This may not be such a bad thing, especially if AOL recognizes the benefits of running Linux on the zSeries. I'll bet AOL has gobs and gobs of servers in their server farm... About 5-6 years ago I was talking with one of their farm operation staff managers and the web farm (then) was