> Have a couple of vendors...that say they support SUSE linux 32 and 64 bit ... > Intel only ... > BUT > Do not support z/Linux ??? puzzled ....
Yeah. After all, isn't the whole world Intel-based now that those pesky mainframes are gone? NOT. Mostly it's an issue with testing and QA. Since there's not very much industry publicity about IBM's offerings for low cost test infrastructure on Z and P hardware, most of the ISVs outside of the orbit that usually deals with IBM don't know -- or care -- about non-Intel hardware. The same vendors probably don't do Solaris/SPARC, Linux on POWER, or AIX either (and IBM just discontinued production of current POWER 7 blades for BladeCenter, so the reasonably priced option to get in-house POWER hardware just went away). Cheap Solaris hardware went away with Oracle's maniacal push to get people off the old Sun boxes by dropping support for them in Solaris 11. Next couple month's ebay shopping should be good for POWER blades. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
