Until you tell them the (upfront) cost to get into a mainframe - or the cost to turn on those CPs. Then the look of awe turns to derisive laughter.
And growing DASD is only a big deal to us because of our history - ask gil about ZFS; ask a Linux admin about LVM (or even EVMS). Who cares about the underlying hardware - it's the filesystem (your data) that matters. Whack in some new disk, grow your data (dynamically) across it. Even the mainframe vendors know this - they keep swapping out the drives for bigger ones. I say we still have a fight on our hands. Shane ... On Sat, Mar 6th, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > People with PC-only experience are always astonished when I tell them > > about modern mainframe provisioning capabilities. They always assume > > when your hard drive fills up you need a new one or when your CPU is > too > slow you need a new one. What we do seems like magic to them. > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from > magic." > -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
