On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, McKown, John wrote: > No money. "Linux is FREE!" I don't know how our marketting rep talked our > management to getting an IFL and z/VM when we upgraded to our z/800. We have > NO consolidation plans or any other "plan" for how to use Linux/390. Lots of > talk, but no real action at present. The only reason that we are testing > Oracle under Linux/390 is so that the Oracle people can "prove" that the > mainframe is inferior to a "full blown, 8-way" Sun box with ? Gigs of memory > (they are comparing it to a single IFL and 2 Gb of CSTOR + 1Gb of ESTOR > under z/VM).
The unfortunate thing about "free software" as defined by the FSF is that it's open to misinterpretation. Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Understand it, refer to it whenever appropriate, incoporate the entire text as an appendix to any relevant report etc. There's no licence fee, but that's where "free of cost" ends. You still have implementation costs, maintenance costs, support costs. Learn to use what you have, develop a plan to get the best out of what you have. And, if you don't do something speccy, the Sun platform will win this round, not because Oracle on Sun is better, but because the people doing the testing on that platform are better. It's like when a grandmaster visits your local chess club and takes on all comers in a simultaneous exhibition. Unless your club is pretty special, I'd back the GM to win every game. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
