Hi, George. The number of misstatements and outright errors in the first Murphy blog are too numerous for me to attempt to address in this note. He makes the all to common mistake of attempting to compare wildly different system architectures by comparing the processors' Mhz ratings...and this leads him to the erroneous conclusion that a Dell 1.4 Ghz 4 way PC will have the same throughput as a z9 system....;-)
However, for some *real-world* examples of consolidating Oracle onto Linux running under z/VM, please take a look at these presentations: 1) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Comparing System z and Distributed Platforms (http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE109/S9265cfr.pdf) 2) Choose the Wrong Architecture and Waste Millions - A Customer Case Study (http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE109/S9205mp.pdf) 3) How to Rise Above the Challenges of Deploying z/VM and Linux on the Mainframe and Thrive (http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE108/S9230.pdf) ...pay particular attention to this one... I have some others I can send you as well, if you would like them. George Wallace wrote:
I tried to talk to my manager to begin a zLinux POC at our company (health care) recently to consolidate Oracle servers and, well, it did not go so well. He pointed me to 2 articles in zdnet that discouraged him from even entertaining the idea (see links below). Does anyone have suggestions on how I can counter this type of article? Is there merit in them? I'm just looking for some feedback. thanks............... George (company name withheld) http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=938 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=905 --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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