Stricklin, Raymond J wrote:
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From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you remember all that, you must be nearly ready for
retirement too:-)
Alas, yesterday was my 30th birthday. If I were nearly ready for
Musta been reading history. My youngest daughter is 30 next year.
retirement it would make this pending (potential) outsourcing that I am
facing much easier to take. As it is, if it does happen, I'm probably
going to have to go back to working on UNIX systems and forget about
z/VM, as I will have just barely over two years experience at that
point. I think that will be the biggest disappointment of the whole
ordeal, for me personally.
I've never really understood outsourcing. If (say) IBM Global Services
can do it more cheaply, why can't you?
Doesn't IBM GS have a conflict of interest?
If the work's going offshore, do you really want to risk your Crown
Jewels (corporate data) to a foreign jurisdiction? (ask Google about
betting on Cricket in the subcontinent).
When someone leaves, you lose corporate history. Possibly I remember
stuff about where I worked 30 years ago that nobody there now knows and
that's not in any records, and wouldn't be read if it was.
True. In my experience, however, machines change location or function
more frequently than they change names. This is probably more true of
distributed systems than it is of mainframe systems.
I note that for some years (but no longer) there were
half-a-dozen or so IP addresses associated with www.ibm.com.
I suspect that it is no longer true, not because redundancy and
load-balancing such a setup would have afforded is no longer required,
but because there are more sophisticated ways of doing it these days
than just with multiple DNS A (or CNAME) records. F5 Networks, for
example, have done some rather astonishing things with their BigIP
product---which honestly has probably moved on to accomplish even more
astonishing things since the last time I looked at it four or five years
I think a simple round-robin DNAT (multiple destinations) would do it.
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Cheers
John
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