"It breaks down to religious shouting because the differences (the VM features) become too numerous to count and wind up as fundamental to the VMer's zSeries experience."
Or like two queens at a dress ball arguing over who has the best costume when both costumes do what they're supposed to do - cover the naughty bits and keep you warm (zOS vs zVM) while the youngster (Linux) is trying to find out what new things they can do, making the two old queens irrelevant. (of course, a lot of people don't need all the VM features, but that's a side issue). Some observations: - VM does not sell as many zSeries as zOS does and the business people want to maximize profit. - Windows, zOS and zVM are expensive, proprietary OS and IBM and others would like to replace them at all levels with Linux. So, the real question is how can we leverage Linux on a zSeries in both LPAR mode and under VM and compete with other OS and platforms? What have we discarded in the past 3 years because of the "slow" zSeries and limited memory that we can resurrect on a TREX/FICON/ES800 to increase the zSeries repetoire of competitive applications?" ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/
