>>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

