Do blade servers running say z/Pdt and z/os compete with real z/os in cycles 
and I/O ..?


Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Sep 3, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Richard Hintz <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Mark Post <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:46:35 -0600
>> Then you haven't looked deeply enough.  Software licensing for middleware 
>> significantly favors running on Linux on >System z.  Many other costs such 
>> has power, cooling, floor space, people, inventory tracking, networking 
>> hardware, >disaster recovery, provisioning and retirement, etc., also favor 
>> System z.  The challenge, as it always has been, is to pick >the right tool 
>> for the job, and not assume that a particular tool is always the right one 
>> OR the wrong one.
> 
> Do you have something or can point me to something that shows comparative 
> metrics for these, especially:
> --power/cooling
> --floor space
> --people
> --networking hardware (I really don't understand this, since I would have 
> thought the networking hardware would be external to the device)
> --DR
> --provisioning
> --retirement (not tracking on this, too.  See places still running IMS, for 
> example)
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Rich
> 
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