I would never automatically assume that consolidation equals Linux on System z. Consolidation to z/OS is also quite popular. Or, said another way, if you're a new z/OS customer then by definition (and automatically) you're probably enjoying huge consolidation benefits. We sometimes forget that and/or take it for granted.
I don't know exactly how many frames BC Card is installing, but I can make a safe bet: to support the same (or more) workloads it'll be far fewer machines. This is z/OS we're talking about here, and you just don't need many machines. A couple (in Parallel Sysplex) at the primary site plus one at the DR site is a very nice installation indeed -- and can grow to be enormous (in workload terms) without increasing the machine count. For some background reading, here's an article I wrote entitled "How Many Mainframes Do You Need?" http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/how-many-mainframes-do-you-need.html - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
