I saw the same exercise in a pharm. company trying to  go from MVS, multiple 
Lpars to unix.
Several millions of $$$ and it was a bust....some applications were difficult 
to convert 


Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Aug 26, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Arthur Fichtl wrote:
>> ----------------SNIP-----------------------------
> 
>> OTOH, if you look at the global big new companies (e.g. Google, Amazon, 
>> Facebook), nobody of them is running MF systems because these companies are 
>> not captivated by legacy systems.
>> 
>> Instead, Google (as known to the public) is running a cluster version of 
>> Linux based on commodity machines, Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing 
>> (see: 
>> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/08/15/amazon-direct-connect-comes-to-new-york/)
>>  , and Facebook’s architecture is described here: 
>> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/27/facebook-server-storage-designs/
> 
> 
> I can't find it know but I believe it was mentioned on here that Google 
> (maybe others as well) does have a mainframe. Not for search engine "stuff" 
> but for the business side (payroll etc)...
> 
> Ed
> 
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