When you build hardware its logical to try to sell it or push it for solutions ...does mean you have to like it or be involved if you don't need to or want to....
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:25 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 6/12/2014 12:08 AM, John Gilmore wrote: >> David Crayford wrote: >> >> <begin extract> >> 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. >> </end extract> >> >> 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 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
