Don't forget Marcy Cortes's work with Linux guests under z/VM at Wells
Fargo. She gave an excellent presentation at the latest zExpo in San
Antonio back in September on what's happening at Wells Fargo regarding
production Linux deployment and acceptance there. It's not (yet?)
available from the Linux on VM web site, but I can send a copy to anyone
that wants one.
Novel is also hosting an on-demand webcast on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server for System z, that might address some actual customer
experiences. You can register for it here:
http://www.novell.com/surveyutil/survey.jsp?id=220&sourceid=systemz-n_email
Hope this helps some. Have a good one too.
Mark Post wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 4:00 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Rodriguez, Oscar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip-
Does anyone have some good examples of software licensing cost
savings by moving from distributed servers to Linux on the
mainframe?
I'm giving a presentation on the cost savings and I think this is
something I want to focus on.
It's a good point, but don't forget power and floor space. I just
had a meeting yesterday with a client who is unable to get any more
power for their data center. (The utility refuses to sell it to
them.) So, they're looking at migrating a bunch of midrange boxes to
Linux on System z.
-snip-
From what I've read it seems that some software vendors, like IBM
and possibly Oracle are charging the same amount per engine as they
are per distributed cpu.
As you say, a number of ISVs are treating Linux on System z as
"distributed workload" and pricing it per engine. Almost all of
IBM's middleware products are like that, for example, as well as
Oracle. The problem with Oracle is that they haven't made a lot of
their applications available so far. Some of them, but not even a
majority of them (last I checked).
Since we can run several Linux instances on one engine, there are
clearly cost savings there.
Basically do you guys know of any more examples ?
Nationwide Insurance has been very visible at SHARE and System z
Expo, talking about their savings. First National Bank of Omaha.
Citigroup running DB2 was mentioned in an Information Week article a
whle back.
What vendors / software are people targeting to consolidate on the
mainframe do to the software licensing savings ?
I'm not yet really happy with the page at
http://www.novell.com/partners/ibm/mainframe/success.html but you can
look there to get an idea what people have been doing.
Mark Post
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