R.S. wrote: > Ravishankar Mulagaleti wrote: [...] > > If a customer were to purchase a z990, what factors would > influence him to prefer a z/Linux installation as over a z/OS > installation ? > > Apples and oranges. > What factor ? APPLICATION. > Nobody purchases machine just to run system software. It is > usually bought to run some applications. > When you want to run MS SQL Server, you cannot choose Linux or Sun.
No, but MS SQL Server is hardly an application either. Most probably you can use DB2 or Oracle or a free SQL server just as well; all these are largely commodity items now. A customer generally buys z hardware and z/OS because of its perceived reliability and compatibility, but not all of that is available with Linux on z. 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
