Does anyone besides me see disaster looming with this statement? "And we want to move stuff - because the number of our Solaris boxes are running at 5 to 10 percent utilization - onto smaller Intel boxes. Some of the other stuff is running 80 to 90 percent of a farm of 880s, so we'd like to pick them up and wack them on the zSeries partitions."
That sounds like they're planning to move a fairly large amount of CPU intensive workload onto the mainframe. Does anyone have any information to the contrary? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ferguson, Neale Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Centrelink to Migrate 450 Windows Systems to Linux See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2004090701026NWDTPB "As part of a $312 million infrastructure refresh project, Centrelink will migrate at least 450 Windows servers over to Linux and join the small number of enterprises running the open source operating system on the mainframe. "Centrelink infrastructure planner David Oram said the bulk of the department's infrastructure consists of about 1400 Intel servers and 300 Sun servers, with the Intel systems 'roughly' split between Windows and NetWare..." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
