In my opinion management doesn't care. Most management have a better
understanding of small servers than MF so they naturally gravitate to this.
As much as the MF people try to make a case the natural bias of management
always comes out, which affects the decision. Also, the people cost is
usually hidden in separate buckets so that the people making the decision to
move from the MF to UNIX/LINUX servers still get gold stars for saving
costs.
Joel Wolpert
Performance and Capacity Planning consultant
WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com
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Chase, John wrote:
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Frequently the problem is not that the information is not promulgated
timely, but rather that the information is ignored.
-jc-
I hate ignorance! :-)
How do you overcome that? (In a way that is not job threatening?)
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Perhaps what needs to be done is point out that what they are really
trying to get away from is the expense of z/OS or z/VSE, etc. But what
they really need is the low cost of Linux that runs on z/ARCH with z/VM
managing.
The end result is RAPID recovery in a BCP (Biz Continuity Plan) test
with business processes running and available much quicker.
Also, less power consumption, with greater throughput because of the
integrated I/O that z/Architecture provides under the covers to an
operating system.
Just my opinion having been though more than one, "We gotta get off the
mainframe" projects (most of which were abysmal failures costing MEGA
$$).
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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