>>> On 5/17/2009 at 12:59 AM, "Gibney, Dave" <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > In the few moments I can spare from keeping our z/OS system going and > maintained (I'm still running 1.7 in the important LPARs), I need to > show that Oracle (database and applications(ERP will likely be Banner or > Peoplesoft) runs well on zLinux and that zLinux under zVM is cost > effective in a major way over HP or Sun or other Intell farms.
This is exactly the setup that has saved other organizations millions of dollars, and very quickly at that. A couple that have talked about it in public are Boston University, the Province of Quebec and Baldor Electric. There are a good number more that I can't name because they haven't agreed to it. The key in making the case is to count _all_ the licenses on the distributed systems, not just the production machines: test, development, QA, failover, DR, etc. Most of those are likely to be just sitting there idling, and would be perfect candidates for z/VM guests. It doesn't take very many Oracle licenses to justify z/VM, Linux, and the additional processor(s) and real storage. (At list prices, one Oracle license costs about the same as the one time charge for z/VM and one year Linux subscription with priority support for one processor.) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
