On 8-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Shannon) wrote: > The article doesn't identify which "mainframe" the bank converted from. > It's hard to imagine why any company would convert to Sun nowadays.
I didn't see the message you're referring to so I haven't seen the article. But fewer and fewer sites select their computer platforms these days. Their primary focus is software, not hardware. They shop around for the software they want before making any hardware decisions. Companies convert to Sun when the software they want runs on Sun. When IBM wants to expand their mainframe business, they need to show that this Solaris application will run better on Linux on an IBM mainframe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
