Agreed, and this *could* be the publicity that just blows up the whole notion (more than a notion as far as I'm concerned) that the mainframe is dying/dead and with the recent z9 BC announcement it may not come at a better time. It would be nice to envision all those suits reading about the mainframe in those airline mag's now wouldn't it? Google *mainframe google* .
But, what better way for IBM to get publicity and make money than to host their own mega-search facility backed by the mainframe. All of a sudden *mainframe* sounds cool now, doesn't it? Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 05/04/2006 10:18 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: IBM and Google / Six Apart / Yahoo / whomever Tim, That is a brilliant idea! Google running on a mainframe would be an absolutely STUNNING victory for IBM. If the latest and greatest web-searching technology is running on a mainframe, couldn't you just see the look on the faces of all the people who think the mainframe is yesterdays news? It would totally transform the market virtually overnight! I think there are 2 ways IBM could go. Plan 'A' would be to head over to Google and propose the idea, and plan 'B' would be to compete directly against Google. If Google sticks to the way they're doing things, and IBM jumps in with a much better long-term platform yielding far better results, it wouldn't be long before IBM started pulling huge market share away from Google! Wait a minute; a light bulb just went on and I thought of plan 'C'. IBM could head on over to MicroSoft and sell them a mainframe so MicroSoft could compete against Google! :-) IBM, are you listening? Someone book a conference room for 1pm this afternoon to discuss the plan of attack!! Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe! http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm >From: Tim Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >If I were IBM, I would gather some of the smart Z/VM/Linux folk, and I >would go to places like Google, Yahoo!, or Six Apar with some mainframes >in a trailer already running a hundred-or-so virtual Linux instances, for >a week or three. I'd let the company build their software on those Linux >images and test it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
