In my organization the issue is not just CAN it run someplace, but will
it be supported by the vendor in that environment as well.
Harold Grovesteen
RPN01 wrote:
I think the problems are the vended products for which you cannot obtain
source, and for which the vendor is unable or unwilling to create zSeries
binaries.
An Intel binary executor on p Series makes sense for this; you can move the
product and run it, with very little hassle. This would be a fine solution
for z Series as well, if it were available, but I don't see it happening.
We've "lost" several internal customers because they were running a vended
product that could not be converted to z. We catch them again with Blades
and VMWare and standalone systems, but they aren't a good fit for z no
matter how hard you push.
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On 10/19/08 9:19 AM, "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Originally, you asked about a solution to a problem.
What problem are you trying to solve?
If you have a bunch of Intellish servers running Linux, the usual way to
transfer the workload is to create a Linux server on a zSeries (virtual)
machine. It would run a Linux kernel compiled for zSeries, apache built
for zSeries, DB2, Oracle, etc built for zSeries, Java built for zSeries.
One does _not_ transfer the Intellish binaries, one creates a system
with equivalent zSeries binaries.
One _can_ transfer files and even filesystems, Linux uses the same
encoding on all platforms and filesystems code is written to not care
about endianness.
I am _not_ sure about floating point numbers.
If you have your own programs written for Linux on intellish hardware,
and the code follows sensible rules (eg no assembly code, no referencing
ints as a sequence of chars setc), odds are good it will port with
minimal fuss and bother.
I repeat, what problem are you trying to solve?
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