>> Already virtualized on its own platform, sounds rare and kinky
>> to duplicate that on the 390.

> Not really. There are a lot of large shops that have
> significant numbers of small to medium iSeries boxen that
> they'd give their grandmother's eyeteeth to move to either
> Intel or z virtual machines so that they could completely
> eliminate an entire hardware platform (and an enormous amount
> of floor space).

The solution for customers with lots of small iSeries/System i
boxes today running IBM i (formerly i5/OS formerly OS/400) is to
put in a Power blade (JS12 or JS22). You save a lot of space and
get to share a BladeCenter with x86 blades.

Jim

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