That's another huge problem, as engineering has traditionally been siloed by hardware technology and the groups usually eye each other with attitudes ranging from wariness to utter disdain. Trying to get co-operation when viewed as a threat is never easy. Let's say that management decides zLinux is good. You're still likely to have both intel and z running in parallel for years. You want to be able to leverage your people, which means that folks have to be willing to take on larger roles and become platform agnostic. Your systems, virutalization, storage, network, middleware, etc people have to become comfortable with each other and work together as a team. You've got to integrate both platforms into your operational support structures. That's a big challenge for management who's got to keep a lot of plates spinning just to achieve the incremental goodness that the platform choice offers. In a mainframe-centric shop that may not be too hard. In a enterprise that already has vast amounts of linux/unix workload, that is going to be difficult.
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