I want to argue against that with a sample: The Austrian oil company OMV runs several very big SAP R3 applications (approved by SAP) for several 1000 users under Linux on the mainframe. Why ? A lot less cost and less administration overhead than running the software on other servers, and FAR better performance and higher availability. If I remember correctly, they are productive with that since october 2001. They said, at the beginning it was a very hard fight against the management because of comparable reasons like you have, but now the management is more than happy. And the biggest difference: the former distrustful Unix people are now the biggest S390 fans because of the former unbelieved I/O performance (they got a virtual Linux server for playing, it doesn't cost anything and they can try out what they want). /Herbert
At 17:59 06/09/2002, you wrote: >Anyone, > >We're researching the opportunity of server consolidation through the >investment of LINUX images on our mainframe. Is anyone aware of compiler >limitations concerning programming languages, or anything at all between >Microsoft or Unix environments to LINUX? Several members of our Network >team are standing firmly in the ear of management exclaiming that LINUX is >something of a toy or IBM cash cow that will not perform up to Microsoft or >Unix standards. > >Bruce Fry
