On 12 Oct 2015 11:49:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 12 Oct 2015 09:15:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >>W dniu 2015-10-12 o 16:50, Paul Gilmartin pisze: >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/business/dealbook/dell-to-buy-emc-for-65-billion-a-record-takeover-in-technology.html >>> >>> ... and no mention of IBM nor of "mainframe". Also not in WSJ article. >>> All about "servers". >>> >>> -- gil >> >>Well... About 10 years ago I had to explain why I don't consider usage >>of Dell branded "disk shelves" as DASD for mainframe. Disk shelves were >>cheap, light (weight), took little floorspace. >>Now I see I was shortsighted ;-) >> >> >>BTW: DASD from Dell, tape from Oracle, SE from Lenovo, OSA from Intel, >>FICON Director from Brocade... > >Given world politics, how much of a security hold is having the >Service Element from Lenovo?
Oops, I meant security hole. Frankly I suspect that the smartest thing that any nation's national security apparatus can do is make sure it controls the manufacture of any hardware and software used for sensitive purposes. What code can be hidden in a microprocessor with millions of bits worth of transistor? What code can be hidden on a USB stick? Clark Morris > >Clark Morris >> >>-- >>Radoslaw Skorupka >>Lodz, Poland > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
