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 Facebookâs 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
