Phil, The likely reason they told you that is that development work (at least the compilations) are very CPU-intensive. S/390 processors are not nearly as fast as a newer Intel or AMD processor, and lots more expensive, so the cost equation for that type of work is skewed away from S/390. Also, if you're running on a pre-G5 box, you most likely do not have an IEEE FPU hardware unit, and most Java code is pretty FPU-intensive because most Java programmers don't explicitly declare things as integer and the default is floating point.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Hartman, Philip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Webshpere on Linux Hello list, Serious linux-390 newbie alert! The company I work for is beginning a proof of concept linux for the mainframe. In a recent phone conference with IBM our POC group, mostly techies, was told that Websphere Application Development WSAD is not recommended for the linux-390 platform. Our mid-range people currently do JAVA development using Redhat and Websphere. The POC would obviously like to duplicate their environment as best possible. Is anyone running or tested WSAD under redhat and zVM? thanks... phil...
