Remember IBM's Master The Mainframe Contest students. In addition to making a z platform case, there's a fresh group of trained kids available every year.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Graham Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Points taken Tim. Hadn't seen that link before. > Thanks kindly. > > On 2015-04-16 4:38 PM, Tim Hare wrote: >> I don't think you want to sell this as 'mainframe'. I think you want to >> sell this as 'Enterprise class, cost-saving, Linux virtualization box'... >> the server folk have already attached negative connotations to the >> 'mainframe' word in management's mind. Presenting the cost savings >> (especially if you run Oracle licenses on the farm) from consolidating onto >> one big box is something IBM is doing all over the place and they should be >> glad to help. >> >> You probably have it, but here's a link to a box that is built to do z/VM >> with virtual Linux >> >> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/els.html >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
