Well, I appreciate the answers thus far, but they're vague and platitudinous.
Sure, an application on Z should often stay on Z, but that's not what anybody means by "cloud". In fact, given that the vast majority of application environments are not on Z, saying "stay on <the platform>" is, if anything, an argument that Z is *not* a good cloud platform. Resource sharing/virtualization are good, but ISTR one or two companies that are managing to do a bit of that on Intel (I think they're called Amazon and Google and what's that other startup-oh yeah, Microsoft); not compelling, sorry. Yes, z/VM is the best virtualization platform in a lot of ways. But again, that ain't where the action is, and calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. As for cost of instructions-TR/TRT and friends are also way cool. Surprise, that isn't where applications spend most of their time. Looking forward to more convincing arguments. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
