It sounds interesting to me. At the DGTIC in Quebec we have almost 200 servers running Oracle on 3 IFLs. None of this was work drained from z/OS.
First off I would do the math; if you are new to z/VM, does the cost of IFL(s) and z/VM offset the reduction in MIPS of you remove Oracle from z/OS? Will your z/OS licensing costs be reduced? If yes this may be a winning strategy. What are the future growth plans? I'd be sad to Oracle repatriated to another platform. With Oracle the license is per IFL, not image - so you may be able to run a lot of Oracle critters with few licenses. Don't think you will achieve that licensing savings on Unix. But it depends on how many servers you will be running Oracle on. Is this all data centre or do you have an application or management sponsor? David Kreuter -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM Sent: Tue 6/12/2007 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info Hi Everyone, We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases from z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move. We will be moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows. I have read some articles that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject the idea. Thanks for your help! Mary Yukus :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
