On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:09:15 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Fred Schmidt wrote: > >>The latest z/Journal has a study by Microsoft comparing Windows against >the mainframe in terms of electrical power usage for CICS web-based >applications. It claims that Windows is many times more efficient. > >>You can find the PDF document at >http://www.zjournal.com/redir.cfm?rid=939 > >>Comments? > >There is a catch: They're using NetCobol on a z/OS machine on this Microsoft >sponsored PDF. I didn't read that. I read that they got results for the z9 from an IBM Redbook (run on a different machine). They then "extrapolated" the results from the original machine to a z9 machine. They then took the code in the Redbook and converted it to NetCOBOL to run on the Fujitsu machine. They also ran this under Fujitsu's version of CICS (NeoKicks). > >What's more, theyre using IBM's published results against a test run on their >Fujitsu machines. They really never used a z/OS machine themselves. > Correct. They are "extrapolating" what IBM's results might have been if IBM were to redo their tests on a z9. They "danced around" the newest z10 announcement entirely. >NetCobol belongs to Fujitsu. Fujistu and Microsoft is co-operating together >MMA to lure people from "legacy" z/OS. > >I would only take this comparision seriously if they ACTUALLY used IBM's own >COBOL and WebSphere and that they actually used/rented a z/OS machine. > >What's more, you can't really use published numbers against actual test >results. > >Go figure... > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht Also, they did not indicate how they would convert the normal "support" operations such as batch reporting. They also did not cover other things that we looked at a couple of years ago such as: debugging an application outage (AbendAID equivalent), restarting the "job stream" properly (CA-11 equivalent), monitoring the "batch" processing (CA-7 equivalent). -- 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
