Perhaps they've finally figured out that running WebSphere (at least multiple instances of it) on a mainframe is not a very good performer. The old defamatory SHARE badges of TSO on MVS come to mind (a pig on the back of a turtle or something like that). Even IBM's WebSphere people state in public that you won't be getting very many (much less than 10) Web Spheres running on a single mainframe.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Stan Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: eBay Now Powered By IBM The interesting question to me is, why did they (Ebay and IBM consultants) decide on an Intel based, xSeries, platform to run WebSphere on instead of a mainframe runing linux. I would love to know the reasons. Stan
