Mike Beer wrote: >Unfortunately LinuxOne is as difficult to configure and to sell for a >business partner as traditional mainframes. Last year IBM also >required the same skill set from a business partner (e.g. z/OS >certfication) for a machine that is "only linux".
IBM publishes its list of requirements to become a LinuxONE remarketer here: https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_sys_become-linuxone-remarketer I don't see z/OS certification on that list, do you? >Interestingly you do not find * * * ANY * * * customer reference on an >IBM page. Oh really? http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/success/ If that's not enough, take a look at the main LinuxONE landing page: http://www.ibm.com/systems/linuxone/ What do you see * * * * AT THE TOP CENTER OF THE PAGE * * * * ? [I'll raise you 2 more asterisks. :-)] A link to a video highlighting a customer story ("Millions of passengers, billions of tickets")! Here's the direct link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQkJj5S18vE There's also a link on the main LinuxONE page ("Qingdao hospital treat patients proactively with speed and security") to this IBM press release about Bodhi Healthcare Group and Qingdao Municipal Hospital Group: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50374.wss Also, from the main LinuxONE landing page, click on the "LinuxONE News" link, and you end up here: http://www.ibm.com/systems/linuxone/news/index.html ...where there's a link to the story "APLUS adopts LinuxONE for reliable, secure credit card transactions." Here's the direct link to that story: http://www.enterpriselinuxinsights.com/aplus-adopts-ibm-linuxone-secure-credit-card-transactions/ Enterpriselinuxinsights.com is a Web site "Powered by LinuxONE" (logo, top right), i.e. the Web site itself is hosted on a LinuxONE server! Also, on the LinuxONE News page there's a link to this story about ICU IT Services: http://ecc.ibm.com/case-study/us-en/ECCF-LUC12345USEN ...OK, I'll stop there, but hopefully you get the idea. Mike, I hate to ask, but did you even bother checking before posting? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
