Thank's Barton, the direct swedish->english translation would in fact be 'low hanging fruit' ;)
Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden E-mail: [email protected] http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ ________________________________________ From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 13:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Query: What is 'best-fit' to run on Linux for z ? Tore, "z" does lots and lots of little things really well, and is designed to support high resource utilization. Any software or hardware that is used 2% (or even 10%) of the time is a huge cost for underutilized resource. Measuring your "x" servers and showing utilizations is the first step. Any servers that are running applications easily ported to linux on z that are using small amounts of CPU are easy. This is probably 80% of your "x" servers. Pick the low lying fruit (american saying i guess?). If management is convinced by dollars/Euros/Krona savings, then that is the best approach. Come up with a REAL TCO spreadsheet with valid costs that include environmentals, people, software and hardware. If management is more motivated by religion (P vs X vs Z vs Unix), then focus on RAS and Openness of Linux. Agblad Tore wrote: > Hi. > I have a small job to do here, creating a list of what type of Linux > load/services/apps is best fit > to run on z, compared to x86. > And it suddenly strucked me, this list contains lot's of persons that can > answer this question. > > Also what did you find most easy to convince management to use it for. > > What was most successful ? > > We may can achieve something here, if we all go in the same direction ?? > > Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar > Tore Agblad > > Volvo Information Technology > Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development > SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden > E-mail: [email protected] > > http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ > ________________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
