Not sure, certainly with most of my ex-customers, the "rush" of the first (z) VM renaissance is wearing off.
Hopefully, IBM will start the 2nd wave (see above) with more sensible CPU's. To have from 1 to 10k servers running on one box (z/VM) - as an idea or business model, excellent.. but the CPU-intensive stuff nowadays is beyond what the IBM-CPU-as-we-know-it is able for. My and my ex-customers 2 (Euro) cents... JC > > In a message dated 8/15/2006 12:19:27 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > But AFAICS IBM is "demounting" VM. There seems to be diminishing > incentives > to > use VM (maybe apart from running multiple Linux systems). > Is the reason support costs ? I don't know, but would like to. > > > >>> > Hope you get an answer to this. My perception is that they're > short sighting themselves for 'services'(big profit) and will come back to > bite them in market share in the long run. Don't know what to call it, > exposure, market penetration, mojo curve. We're turning out a generation > of PFCSKs > that don't know virtual from dual core and when it comes time for capital > outlays won't know what an IBM is. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > John Cassidy (Dipl.-Ingr.) Berninastrasse 9 8057 Zuerich Europe Telephone: +41 (0) 43 300 4602 Mobile: +41 (0) 79 207 3268 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.JDCassidy.net http://www.europeunited.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_United ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
