It would indeed be interesting to see discussion of this "biggest Mainframe announcement in decades".
It's a lot of iron, to be sure but: 1) Will it offer an attractive alternative (i.e. value) to today's "server farm" and/or web-computing solutions? 2) Is it too little, too late (i.e. most enterprises are already committed to their architecture)? 3) Is it sufficient to support AIX but not the other flavors of Unix (if I read the announcement correctly)? I see some real benefits to having all platforms in a single box and outstanding, non-disruptive scalability. I wonder, however, if enterprise bigwigs will. Cheers, Alan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 14:26 To: [email protected] Subject: I'm amazed IBM makes what is claimed to be the biggest Mainframe announcement in decades and most of the traffic on this list is on the etymology of CICS and PoPs I love it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
