On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Levy, Alan wrote:
Actually, I probably phrased my question wrong.
What I was looking for is why choose Zseries Linux over ANY OTHER operating system's Linux ?
We're getting closer, but:
zSeries is an architecture, not an operating system, and Linux doesn't generally run *on* an operating system[0], it *is* an operating system.
That said, this looks like Question 2, if you substitute "architecture's" for "operating system's". In which case: hardware reliability and fault tolerance, excellent sustained I/O capacity, potential for in-the-box really-high-speed interconnect with (usually z/OS) big databases in another LPAR, humongous consolidation opportunities if you have lightly-loaded guests, and incredibly rapid deployment of machines for testing and development.
Adam
[0] Unless run in a virtualization environment, like z/VM or VMware or Virtual PC, or Hercules, which is an emulation environment running under some OS.
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