Maybe not z/OS related but hey it might keep the box around longer ... pretty impressive Linux on System z implementation (and someone that appreciates the 'Mainframe discipline').
http://www.linuxworld.com/events/keynotes/lwsf06-guru.html Guru Vasudeva AVP & Enterprise Chief Architect, Enterprise OCTO, Nationwide During 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, embarked on a journey to aggressively exploit virtualization and Linux to address the growing software and data center costs, to simplify the environment, and to significantly improve the provisioning process. Today www.nationwide.com and 10 other mission critical applications run on virtualized Linux environment contributing more than $15 million of savings over the next three years. Guru Vasudeva, AVP and Chief Architect of Nationwide shares the approach, architecture, and lessons learned from this successful deployment. Recorded August 16, 2006 There was also a similar presentation at the IBM SYSTEM z9 and zSeries EXPO L73 Linux for System z at Nationwide - From Woe to Whoa! Not sure if this gets published for all to see by IBM. Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

