On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:23:32 -0500, Eric Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yes, that's certainly good news about System z hardware. But I don't
see very many jobs opening up for *z/OS* Systems Programmers as a
result of this project.
But it may help reduce job closings for z/OS folks. Linux on
Eric Chevalier writes:
Yes, that's certainly good news about System z hardware. But I don't
see very many jobs opening up for *z/OS* Systems Programmers as a
result of this project.
I do, at least with reasonable probability.
There are now 30 additional System z Enterprise Class mainframes in
On 2 Aug 2007 00:37:51 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote:
I do, at least with reasonable probability.
There are now 30 additional System z Enterprise Class mainframes in the
world. z/OS runs exclusively on mainframes. z/OS runs an increasing
superset of standard middleware...
I
I think what Timothy and perhaps others are suggesting, is that Linux
may serve as a kind of loss leader for System Z. Say Company XYZ
decides to do like IBM and replace 100 Windows/Unix servers with z/VM
and Linux. Then, a year later, they are looking for a high-reliability
database
It's a simple case of NO SOUP FOR YOU DINOS with strong hint about what
we should be learning.
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:19:02 -0500, Eric Chevalier
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Now, maybe the CNN article got the details wrong. But IBM's own press
release[1] _also_ states Linux, not z/OS. (I can
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On 2 Aug 2007 06:58:23 -0700, Art Celestini wrote:
I think what Timothy and perhaps others are suggesting, is that Linux
may serve as a kind of loss leader for System Z. Say Company XYZ
decides to do like IBM and replace 100 Windows/Unix servers with z/VM
and Linux. Then, a year later,
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As Mohammad suggested
Eric Chevalier writes:
Your example of Company XYZ, deciding to replace 100 Windows/Unix
servers with z/VM and Linux, implies that the firm is purchasing its
*first* System z box. After the server migration is completed, when
XYZ decides they need that high-reliability database server, I suspect
Google news actually picked up on this one:
Plan to Shrink 3,900 Computer Servers to About 30 Mainframes Targets 80
Percent Energy Reduction Over Five Years
August 01, 2007: 08:45 AM EST
In one of the most significant transformations of its worldwide data centers
in a generation, IBM
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Google news actually picked up on this one:
Plan to Shrink 3,900
On 1 Aug 2007 09:14:48 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Harrison) wrote:
Google news actually picked up on this one:
Plan to Shrink 3,900 Computer Servers to About 30 Mainframes Targets 80
Percent Energy Reduction Over Five Years
In one of the most significant transformations of its worldwide
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