There was a push to get WebFear on the mainframe and when everyone wined about the issues with Java sucking the life out of and the CPU off of the traditional workloads something had to be done.....
--- On Fri, 1/15/10, Bob Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob Shannon <[email protected]> Subject: Re: The Economist: "The Return of the Mainframe, Back in Fashion" To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 3:39 PM >Does this imply that zAAPs will become obsolete? I think it implies that creating multiple specialty engines was a mistake, and that one "program" specialty engine will suffice. I don't see zAAPs becoming obsolete in the foreseeable future. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

