> On 3/8/06, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quick, the oxygen!! > > " Multi-platform server consolidation: The PSI server is unique in that > > it can be simultaneously used as a consolidation target for traditional > > mainframe systems such as z/OS and open systems such as Windows."
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Everyone is unique in some way, but... > "NEW ORLEANS, May 22, 1995 . . . IBM today announced at the IBM > Technical Interchange conference the first IBM PC server that can run > both PC and mainframe-based applications. The new server... " I believe the operative phrase here is "consolidation target". The 1995 box was, what? a P/390?, was no consolidation target. What PSI has done is take a rack of blade processors (or something akin to that) and arrange for a mixed workload. I remember a presentation at SHARE some 18 months back: looks like they have an emulation layer, so the first thought is "Flex?". But theirs is different. How? -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
