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

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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..."

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