On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Richard Gasiorowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I must be missing something.  My original question was does IBM have an
> LX86 product for zLinux. The answer is no.  So are you other vendors
> saying you have something that works or not.  I am not talking windows
> servers-  Linux servers.  Personally I am surprsied that IBM presents
> zLinux as a platform to migrate many small linux x86 servers.  It also

Not through emulating the full x86 Linux as-is, but by moving the
workload. For example from Apache, PHP or WebSphere & db2 on x86 to
the same products with Linux on z/VM. Or in some cases from any J2EE
platform to WAS on System z.
Because Linux is Linux, porting from x86 to s390 is normally not a big
issue, and most Open Source Software has been ported already (and many
vendors of commercial packages on Linux have done so). There may be
some performance challenges because not every application behaves
"nice" in a shared environment. You see that most with Linux on z/VM
because we overcommit more resources than you can on VMware for
example.

-Rob

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