A co-worker forwarded this to me. The title of this article is rather misleading. It's more a review of Sun's bundling/integrating of a bunch of middleware into Solaris 9, and how the combination of the OS, and higher-end Sun hardware might make server consolidation more likely. (Also how that approach is very similar to what Microsoft has been doing for years.) He draws parallels between that and IBM's marketing of Linux/390 as a server consolidation approach, but doesn't get terribly controversial, to say the least. The one real gaffe he makes is in this statement: "But all other things being equal, the Solaris consolidation approach has an advantage in that it is a plan for consolidating to a Solaris server, not an IBM mainframe running an operating system (zOS (sic)) with which your administrators may have little experience."
I _really_ don't understand why people seem to feel the need to try to insert z/OS into the discussion, but they do, and that really just messes with the credibility of the rest of the article, for me. http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2867366,00.html Mark Post
