Rich Smrcina wrote: > It pretty much boils down to an attempt at saving money, but without dragging > in 'server consolidation' terminology, there is not much else I can add.
The saving money part is the most important. Server consolidation is currently the most obvious way to demonstrate a cost saving, but I'm confident that applications will arise that none of us have thought of yet. Take firewalls, for instance. The shop I'm at right now has seven person-high racks of equipment used for firewalling. With the firewall capabilities in a 2.4 kernel, combined with technology like Hipersockets and Gigabit OSA Express, it should be feasible to run a capable Linux firewall in a couple of LPARs (or guests under VM). Obviously this makes more sense if you already have zSeries or S/390... Using Linux/390 as a means of reducing z/OS costs is another possibility. For example, for an arbitrary e-business application based on DB2/Websphere, it might be cheaper to use z/OS as a back-end engine with Linux/Apache as a front-end than to run the whole thing from z/OS (this presumes z/OS workload charging). Speaking generally, network infrastructure is another good candidate. WINS (via Samba), DNS, DHCP and friends might benefit from better availability that S/390 can provide. HTH... Cheers, Vic Cross -- Vic Cross MACS mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking, Linux, on S/390 and zSeries Independent Systems Integrators Pty Ltd -------- schroedinger.c: In function `open_box': schroedinger.c:5: warning: `cat' might be used uninitialized in this function
