something like that, at least in the Philly site we were Big Iron, and VAX/VMS and some off the wall Cray (like) servers, STS systems, the big push was to RS/6000 running at the time AIX 4.3, because the new director didn't want the cost of upgrading the CATIA mainframe. by the time distributed CATIA was production at this location, it was time for a hardware refresh followed by a software refresh for thousands of RS/6000's - like painting the Golden Gate bridge, once complete, time to start over again. staffing that enterprise was a nightmare now with the advent of virtualization in the open systems world this made life somewhat easier - so I'm told.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Staller" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:17:27 PM Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? The way I heard the story: Big Iron is too expensive. Get Off! Migrate to VAX (many). Oops! Too many VAX's. Get Off Migrate to Amdahl! (Big Iron). <snip> I found this out some time ago working for Boeing, even though we were one company, we still had to submit a budget each year for computing services, this drove Boeing Helicopters to look at alternatives, mostly the costs of CATIA and CADAM, on Big Iron, distributed was initially cheaper, but in the long run many cost overruns due to poor planning and a desire to 'just get off the mainframe at any cost', that's what drove us to look at consolidation afterwards, then migrations to / from other platforms....if it made sense :) </snip> ::DISCLAIMER:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
