Also recommend you contact both the IBM people who chimed in. Not me -- I'm in Singapore and may be groggy when you call at your reasonable time. :-) However, to give you a few more lines of investigation from afar....
1. What are they running on those Windows-based servers (and on any other servers)? What sort of applications (in terms of runtimes, in particular) and middleware products? 2. If there are 7 municipalities, and (by implication) 7+ primary data centers, are there are also at least 7 secondary (DR) centers? Or is DR inadequate? 3. Are the 7 municipalities providing services 7 different ways -- they have 7 different applications for substantial the same service, in other words? With 7 different application development and/or support teams? Or do they have substantial agreement on applications? The answers to these questions (and a few others) would be helpful in trying to understand "better" and "best" alternatives, if any. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
