Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Back in April I attended a seminar given by IBM on the usual subjects. And one before that in March. During the entire April seminar the Tivoli rep, didn't want to discuss the importance of VM, and Linux as a guest, nor the reasoning behind that position, and while they did give token mention to VM, as a server, it was always as a legacy application.
Sometime ago, during a two day seminar held at the IBM offices in Manhattan, (That's one place where you and I, met, David.), the Tivoli representative was clearly out of the depth to which the person was placed. Come to think of it, so was the Oracle representative. Jim, since this is a sensitive subject, I'm not going to continue on my opinions in this forum, but can you do something about it? ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Boyes > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Time stamps and journaling file systems > > > [ ... good case for doing TSM on zSeries for specific customer with > SCSI tape already in place ... ] > > Most of the > > pre-reqs were already there. > > This is the key sentence. I agree that it made sense for this customer > -- but they are the exception, not the rule in terms of equipment > present in their environment. > > Have a look around at your other established customers and compare the > number who have SCSI attached storage and tape, and then count the > number which have ESCON/FICON attached storage systems and tape. > In any rational world, I'd expect the "recommended" product to support > both, particularly given the non-trivial investment we're talking about > in hardware. > > Enterprise-class ATLs aren't cheap, and adding a 3590 is a expensive > proposition, both in terms of cost and real estate in the silo, > especially if those drives are inaccessible to the other hosts using the > silo. If you've already got them, great -- lucky you. Most people don't, > and asking someone to spend $35K or more for a tape drive that their > other systems can't benefit from is a bit silly in my book - almost as > silly as forcing them to buy a whole new operating system with punitive > software licensing models to use hardware they already have paid for for > a basic task like backups. > > And Tivoli wonders why TSM doesn't do very well in the marketplace... > > -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
