>Does anyone have opinions on the trade press rumors that the next z >frames will house not only z-architecture engines but also power and >x64 "blades"? > >In particular, how would you see these being used? >what advantage would you see/imagine in putting power or x64 blades in >the same box as z-engines (vs separate boxes)? >(but please, don't vector off into a Windows-bashing discussion... >non-z arch blades could also run linux/solaris/aix/bsd/etc.
IBM has admitted that their ultimate goal is to have only one processor/chip/hardware that can run the workloads from all three processor families and still be competitive. At this point, personally I see it as IBMs way to reduce hardware development costs while at the same time draw in more customers to run on an 'IBM chip'. Being the pessimistic person that I am, I also see it as one more nail in the coffin for z/OS. In about 10 years I guess there will be about 50 huuuge z/OS installations that run the 'traditional workload'. The rest of the hardware (not called z at that time) will run other workloads not related to z/OS. >From our experience, z has a reputation of being able to deliver good 'management' of the workloads. That's why we are approached to run more applications on zLinux. My guess is this is the same everywhere and that IBM also hopes that this reputation will carry over to whatever the hardware/workload will be called. Unfortunately I think that the reputation will die with z/OS. NextGen just doesn't have the mindset to manage it the way we do. (Some exceptions apply.) Regards, Barbara Nitz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
