A. Tongue was in cheek. B. As an example, the document imaging solution we use runs under Windows Server 200?, some dozen squatty boxes. If Windows Server 200? ran on zHardware, we could save several squatty box licenses and run on more reliable hardware. Hell, perhaps Exchange would run faster and more stable on zHardare.
p.s. Shouldn't implementation of x86 and above be just a different set of millicode? Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Computerworld: London Stock Exchange to Abandon Windows > > (reformatted) > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:23:48 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:28:29 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >> > > >> >Proportedly, Windows can run on z.... > >> > > >> But why would anyone choose to run Windows on z? Aside from: > >> > >> o He can afford a z, but not a PC (stranger things have > >> happened). > >> > >> o He's titillated by the sheer irony of running notoriously > >> unreliable software on outstandingly reliable hardware. > >> > > Because the "Window Server" Application is not available in native z > >or Linux and they want the reliability of the zHardware :) > > Window server application? Have you demoted their operating system? > > And what benefit do you think that there is in doing that anyway? > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
