I could see the VM numbers going up due to Linux. Since kVM is an integral part of RHEL 5.4, has anyone tried to get it working on a z box? While it may not perform as well as zVM, the price could make it competitive.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) > > 2010/1/21 D E Engelbrecht <[email protected]>: > > >>Various analysts report more than 15,000 mainframe installations > worldwide, > > > > Where is the source of that claim? IBM will NEVER divulge it. NEVER! > > IBM had a poster they distributed in the 1990s saying "VM soars with > 20,000 licences". So at least at one point they provided a bottom > limit. One imagines the number is much lower today, and was never that > high for MVS. > > Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
