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The problem is in tightly defining information functions such as
"server". And this is particularly a problem for us who are categorized
as being "Mainframe" people.
Looking for a particular technology for server functions (or database
functions, or whatever), is going to find particular technologies,
whether or not those technologies are the best for our needs.
A narrow focus makes management not see when their old Mainframe
technology is not as expensive as they thought, especially with new
privacy and security needs, and old reliability needs.
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One thing I've found to be very helpful: try and teach management that
the "mainframe" is nothing more or less than a large server with
multiple concurrent capabilities. If you can get them to think that way,
you might have a better chance of justifying the "expense" of that large
server sitting there, with all that "expensive" DASD equipment.
Rick
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