>>> On 8/7/2009 at  3:09 PM, Joel Wolpert <[email protected]> wrote: 
-snip-
> Also, I believe the cost 
> of z/VM is not that great because you do not need any 3rd party tools.

You were doing fine until you got to this statement.  While running z/VM solely 
for the purpose of hosting Linux guests doesn't require as much additional 
software as a traditional CMS workload, the number doesn't go down to zero.  :) 
 You're still going to need performance management, backups, probably a 
security manager, directory manager, etc.


Mark Post

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