Not all Federal data centers see any value in dinosaurs, even dinosaurs with penguins. Neither dinosaur nor penguin is as good as Windows. Management will suffer to have network infrastructure running under some form of linux (Centos or Fedora, but nothing with a support contract). But Webservers, Database servers, file servers, print servers, they belong to Windows because the true Federal Desktop is Windows and everything must be like that.
/Tom Kern On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:33:40 -0400, Richards, Robert B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave, > >Most major banks that I am aware of do have parallel sysplexes in their >data centers. I suspect that we are not talking about mainframe system >availability here but rather whether their distributed servers which are >running the front-end banking applications are highly available. High >availability on IBM's System p is on the verge of becoming a real >possibility since the Power 6/AIX 6 stuff was announced, but that >infrastructure design certainly is not widespread across the banking >footprint as of yet! > >I wouldn't say we are necessarily losing the battle. Linux on System z >(among other things) has been working on leveling the playing field for >awhile now. Server consolidation on "Project Green" type initiatives, >etc. are also in vogue. The smarter shops are attempting to stop the >unrestrained proliferation of blades and racks. > >"We've only begun to fight!" > >Bob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
