On 6/12/2014 12:08 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
David Crayford wrote:
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I know it's heresy on this list, but in the distributed world they
would just add another server and/or add more grunt to the network.
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The granularity of mainframes is of course greater, but additional
storage and CPEs are available.
Yes, and they're very expensive!
This strategy, that of throwing
hardware at problems, has been around in the mainframe world for
decades. IBM salesmen used to call the customer CIOs who used it
routinely "hardware hawks", perhaps still do. They were much
appreciated, though not much respected.
IBM salesmen will be queuing up to sell you an IBM SmartCloud Analytics
solution for System z that doesn't actually run on system z.
Well, maybe the agent does. It's all going off host these days and that
makes sense. You only want to pay $$$ for running your legacy
COBOL apps.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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