On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:36:47 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>But I am wondering about so-called Oracle Site >Licenses. From what I have been told, we have such a thing. Supposedly, this allows us to have basically unlimited numbers of Oracle systems running on >any number of "cores" on any platform. That's how we got Oracle on z/OS. > >I have never seen a site license for ORACLE. >I don't think they're available in Canada. > >But, you've got power and cooling of one zFOOTPRINT vs all the other INTEL boxen. True. But that does not impress anybody in management around here. They are still in the "z/OS and System z is simply too expensive!" mindset. And, the 2009 budget has been DECREASED. I know the pain this is causing on z/OS. I don't know the pain on the "other side". We have actually reversed a "tape to DASD" migration. We were going to keep the "active" dataset on DASD. Now, we have been told "no new DASD for you!" and must actually be more penny-pinching than in the past. We are setting DFHSM to migrate "unused" datasets at the 15 day level again. I'm expecting the return of the Sx37 abends we were getting years ago. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
