>without giving us a free or
>inexpensive
>way to demo and sell our management on SuSE S/390 Linux.
>Without that...a lot of us can not convince our management to take
a >serious
>look at S/390 Linux.
Seems to me, then, the solution is simple.
1. Download one of the "free distributions" (like I did - Marist orginally,
then SuSE because that's all there was until recently. I probably would
have stayed on Marist if they hadn't been stuck on the 2.2.14 kernel.),
2. Spend two years getting it to work as a production system with no
manuals and no help other than this list and a few presentations at SHARE
(like I did),
3. Finally convince management with this proof-of-concept (like I did - or
at least am still doing) and then
4. Evaluate all the full systems to find the best for your needs and buy
this full-featured system with full support (like I did). It may not be the
same system you evaluated. We seriously considered Red Hat until we found
that there was no guarantee Oracle would work with it.
p.s. Many, many, many thanks to the list members who've put up with all my
questions and offered help over the last two years.
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."
-Piet Hein, Journal of Irreproducible Results March, 1971
Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D
VM Technical SErvices, The Boeing Company, (425)865-5940
> ----------
> From: Dave Myers
> Reply To: Linux on 390 Port
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Current Linux/390 Distributions Aren't Cheap
>
> In a message dated 1/22/2002 9:59:24 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > I haven't heard anyone actually suggest a new
> > business model for SuSE based on cheap prices, just whining about the
> new
> > price.
>
> Most of us are not whining about the support costs...just the fact that
> they're forcing that cost on us up front....without giving us a free or
> inexpensive
> way to demo and sell our management on SuSE S/390 Linux.
> Without that...a lot of us can not convince our management to take a
> serious
> look at S/390 Linux.
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
>
