No, many of the System z Solution Edition offerings are 100% z/OS-based. All but two -- I think that's correct -- are substantially z/OS-based.
Was there anything IBM said that might cause you to assume otherwise about the Solution Edition offerings? If so, maybe that's something I could look into. I've previously highlighted in this forum that they are heavily/substantially z/OS-based (if that's of concern and/or curiosity). Although I don't speak for IBM, I will confirm the press release details, that BC Card has selected very nice z/OS-based infrastructure, including (as the press release says) CICS Transaction Server. DB2 and WebSphere Application Server are also on z/OS, as are several other software products. I'm not even sure if there is any Linux-based content at this point in time, though there could be. z/OS and Linux on System z complement each other quite well and certainly don't particularly compete with one another. BC Card was founded in 1982. They have never had a mainframe before -- not anything of MVS heritage anyway. It is the largest credit card company in Korea. My congratulations (and thanks) to BC Card. We look forward to many mutually beneficial years working together. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
