In <[email protected]>, on
11/17/2009
   at 10:34 AM, "Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)" <[email protected]> said:

>I have found a few things I could not do:
>       Support custom hardware (no slots on the z box)

That's like saying that you can't expand an Intel system because there are
no FICON channels. Both platforms have expansion capabilities, and there's
a thriving market in 3rd party hardware for the zSeries.

>       Promote binaries from z to x86.

Or from SPARK to x86. Or from iSeries to x86. That blade cuts both ways.

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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