> We are now contemplating Oracle under zOS (we have DB2) for those
> applications that require even better availability.  When you think
> about it, zOS is rock solid compared to Linux.

It better be. There's certainly been a bunch of code written to make
sure that it is. 

> SOA, which is being pursued by our developers, has not come up as a
> reason not to move to zOS.   I am going to ask the question.

It won't come up. IBM and others have spent a fair amount of money
making sure that Linux and z/OS can participate (mostly to save older
apps from moving off the platform). It's not cheap to do, though....

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